True Confessions: I Became a Criminal for This

by Pamela Cisneros | Oct 28, 2025 | Authenticity, Breaking Rules, Inspiration

I need to confess something. I have a guilty pleasure. The kind where I’ve lost entire rainy weekends. Where I’ve stayed up until midnight on a school night muttering “just one more.” Where I’ve actually learned to operate a VPN and hack...

Fighting Ghosts: What a Cardinal Taught Me About My Mind

by Pamela Cisneros | Oct 13, 2025 | Authenticity, Breaking Rules, Inspiration

For six days straight now (and counting), a female cardinal has been at war with my house. It started with one particular window. I’d hear this persistent thunk, thunk, thunk throughout the day. At first, I thought maybe she’d fly into it by accident and...

The Day I Stopped Trying to Fix Myself

by Pamela Cisneros | Sep 28, 2025 | Authenticity, Breaking Rules, Inspiration

What I discovered when I stopped trying to transcend my humanity “The phenomenal world appears fluid and insubstantial, transparent to the light of Awareness. There is no center, only infinite context. Awareness is the infinite context of all existence, itself neither...

The Perfect Day I Didn’t Want

by Pamela Cisneros | Sep 14, 2025 | Authenticity, Inspiration, Intuition

What happens when you trust your feelings over perfect conditions   Labor Day weekend. Clear blue sky, barely 80 degrees, low humidity. A blessed break from the heat and monsoon rains we’d been enduring all summer. Perfect kayaking weather. I mean perfect. The...

I Want to Be Like Theo (But I Keep Failing at Costco)

by Pamela Cisneros | Aug 30, 2025 | Authenticity, Creativity, Inspiration, Intuition

On the split-second choice between assumption and curiosity—and why imperfection might be the point I just spent the entire weekend ugly-crying over a book, and I already want to read it again.  Because this wasn’t just any casual summer read—it was a very...