The barefoot storyteller
Shifani ReffaiPieces of prose and poetry from a wanderer living on earth in search of meaning
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 90 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Phone Use & How It Makes Me Want To Stay Home
(Art by Gianna Toenz)
I have been more social this year than I've been in the last six years on the south coast of Sri Lanka. I feel like the samana from the forest in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha returning to town and learning the ways of t...
The Violence of Storytelling
I have for years identified as a storyteller. I began with stories by words, and evolved into stories by photographs and then by films. Somewhere along the way, I deep dived into Buddhism, linguistics and vipassana, which left me contending...
Surfing The Luteal Blues
For most of my life I was taught to ignore my menstrual cycle. Stick a pad in your underwear and ignore whatever's going on in your body: it's a mere inconvenience.
At 36, I'm learning to integrate my cycle into my life more fully. My frie...
The Act of Loving, Within a Complex & Mysterious Web
I'm in a bus after a saturated week full of rapid learning and growth. The goddess Lakshmi pours coins from out of her palm at the front of the vehicle, a little ways away from a meditating Lord Buddha. Empty buses can be an interesting spa...
Feminism & The Bad Rep It Gets
Growing up with a mother who worked hard to earn for the household, a mother who armed herself in an abusive marriage, a mother who led male dominated spaces in the South Asian Muslim world, I very naturally took on my feminist clothing, wi...
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