Wednesday 20 August 2008

I first purchased the domain name "isahrai.com" in the summer of 2001. For several years, the website was a work portfolio and design testing ground but evolved into a personal blog (and my portfolio moved here). Through my website, you -- both friends and strangers -- have traveled with me from New York to New Orleans to Boston to Zihuatanejo. You've endured grueling details of operations and indulgent recountings of steamy tropical nights. It's been fun, eh? You might have noticed that I have become less and less faithful in my postings in recent months. There certainly has been plenty of things to write about but I have struggled to find any satisfaction in writing a blog that is basically just about me. Could it be that my vanity is ebbing?

Something like that.

I've mentioned (in my sporadic postings) that I've been working a lot to find a more stable sense of happiness in my life. Part of this work has been to address several personal demons and correct some parts of my personality that have been flawed. In the past few weeks I've had the privilege of spending time with a few amazing people that have revealed even more to me about myself, my journey, and the path I want to take from here. All of these things have led to a lot of questions -- and surprisingly, a lot of answers -- about how I want to identify myself, both in my day to day life and online.

One of those answers is a revision of what isahrai.com is and what purpose it serves. I've begun to lay the groundwork for this reconstruction and will be working on it over the next few weeks. I'm excited and hope that once it is revealed, you will be, too. While I'm working on this behind the scenes, I will continue to Twitter about random goings-on so you will get your Quixotic fill. Stay tuned....

Wednesday 13 August 2008

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Significant changes have been happening in my life lately. More importantly, significant changes have been happening in my attitudes, self-esteem, vision, deep thoughts by Jack Handy, etc. And most importantly, especially for readers of this blog, significant changes will soon be happening here at isahrai.com. How significant, you ask? Significantly significant.

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Wednesday 16 July 2008

Alt-Ctrl-Deleting Myself

... I'm extremely frustrated. By this time, I was supposed to be back to hiking. I was supposed to be dancing. I was supposed to be counting the mere weeks until I could wear high heels. For crimony's sake, I was supposed to be showering inside the shower rather than soaking the bathroom floor because I can't climb into the bathtub by myself.

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Monday 07 July 2008

I'm Still with the Band

For the past 6 months, a major source of sanity, craziness and major happiness has been La Boquita, the world music group I formed with Silvia, Paolo and Mauricio. I met Paolo & Mauricio through Daniel, the man who briefly invoked Fever but ultimately proved to be just a little too sick in the head himself. Despite our disastrous ending, I'm forever thankful to him, though, for getting me back on the stage, getting me back in the saddle of love, and getting me to be more open to all sorts of possibilities, musical and otherwise. When Daniel and I fell apart, Maurico & Paolo were literally right there, sitting just a few feet away in the audience, ready to scoop up the pieces. A week later, Silvia (who is Paolo's girlfriend) moved from Queretaro to Zihuatanejo. One day after that, the four of us performed together for the first time.

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