By Maren Kate

A while back, when I was still living in Nevada, I came out to S.F. to visit some blog friends and see Tim Ferriss and Leo Babauta do a panel on Zen living.

This was the first time I’d been alone in San Francisco in… well… forever. And something about the experience transformed me, it was just a sense of freedom I had never felt before, riding the BART, walking everywhere and spending time alone (but happy).

I’d always been dependent on other people up until that point in my life – and that first solitary visit to San Francisco flipped a switch and forever changed a very important part of my inner working.

Anyways, back to the panel, so I’m sitting in this tea spot called Samovar (which I highly recommend to all tea elitists – a group I’m sadly not part... More...