I Opened a Book That Refuses to End

In February 2022, I spent two weeks at the fazenda of my dear friend Regina Cohen — a shaman, natural healer, and woman equally at home in Manhattan and Rio de Janeiro. She co-owns a fazenda in the mountains of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The place is raw, remote, and almost untouched by time. Nestled in […]

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Giving without Taking

Looking back on my work in Janwaar in India, I consider the fact that I never took anything out of this village or from the villagers as one of the pillars of the success story we’ve created. I was giving – and so were the villagers – without expecting anything in return. Giving wasn’t transactional, […]

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