Robertxworld

I tell people I lost my heart in Ericeira. The ocean swept up my recklessness one June morning as I leapt forward into the freezing water-missing the icebaths back home. Exiting the freezing Atlantic to the crisp breeze of Portugal's coastal surf town, I

In Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, she defines a "shadow artist" as someone who works near an artistic outlet without ever fully owning it. For example, the music producer who promotes concerts, the novelist who goes into journalism, the filmmaker who b

I'm sitting on a worn-out, low, crimson couch cushion. Around me are multi-dimensional prisms, astrology books, tarot cards, and metaphysical conjectures by philosophers and lunatics alike. Ahead, the corner holds a crew of three: a young man and two wome

"You know that you are a motivational speaker, right?" She said. Her affectionate tone carried a tenderness, half-joking, that I tried to rationalize as merely polite. Sitting in the cafe holding a short cup of cacao, unknowingly, she had struck the vein

I'm sitting on the patio of Buntera Homestay in Sidemen, Indonesia. Staring at the intertwined plant forest in front as the open hills over the stone wall roll in the distance, the sounds of barking stray dogs have alerted the village that it is, in fact,