KP Hartman – Medium

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Jul 13

Let’s Talk About Death, Baby

It’s time we bring back the song ‘Let’s Talk About Sex’ by the 1990s girl band Salt’N’Pepa. I’m also waiting for someone to make a parody edition titled ‘Let’s Talk About Death.’ I feel the beat already. ‘Let’s talk about death, baby. Let’s talk about you and me. And all…

Death

9 min read

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Jun 5

Lessons from a Love Letter — Unsent

We went to the lavendar farm that summer, walking hand-in-hand, through fields of purple and bumbling, buzzing bees. In the sunlight, her hair took on the color of raw honey and her eyes drank in the world around us and everything was proper and right. …

Love Letters

5 min read

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·May 31

How to Find the Best Coffee in Greece

…and the poetry of the mundane Look for the old Greek men, the locals who have spent their lives beneath the unforgiving Mediterranean sun. Their skin will hold the redness of the heat and some will look as if they’ve prematurely been beaten into leather. They’ll laugh and play games…

Poetry

3 min read

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Apr 25

On Hosting Yourself: Creating a Routine That Works

The light flickered through the windowshades casting hues of gold and bronze across the old hardwood floor and shadows that deepened the bags beneath a friend’s eyes and the shallows of her cheeks. Tucked into an old grey hoodie, hair spilling out the sides, clasping a cup of coffee in…

Morning Routines

5 min read

On Hosting Yourself: Creating a Routine That Works

Jan 26

Be Like the Saints — Satsang with Paramahamsa Vishwananda

Paramahamsa Vishwananda teaches us to live with love and often reminds us to look to the saints as an example. This satsang is about one saint in particular who has inspired the hearts and minds of many. Excerpt from Paramahamsa Vishwananda’s satsang on 4 January 2022 in Malaga, Spain PV: [after singing bhajan ‘Garuda Gamana Tava — Mama Tapama Pa Kuru Deva’] …

Saint

6 min read

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Dec 21, 2021

Dear bell hooks

Rest in peace. Rest in power. Rest in love. Before I found faith, before I found love in faith, I found bell hooks. She is the one who first taught me about love outside of my parents. She taught me that love isn’t always soft and gentle. It can be…

Bell Hooks

4 min read

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Oct 1, 2021

The Role of Food in Gatherings (and some fall favorites too)

My aunt lives in a big blue house on the corner of the street and on Easter, her kitchen is reliably adorned in pastels, the bulletin board is coated in pictures of the visitors of the day, and candy sits in the bowl on the windowsill waiting for adolescent hands…

Family Dinner

7 min read

The Role of Food in Gatherings (and some fall favorites too)

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Sep 14, 2021

Event Review: Living Bhakti Retreat

The Danish summer never gets too hot and seems to exist as a perfect spring day. The deep blue and grey of the sea met the light blue of the sky in the horizon line, dogs and kids ran up and down the beach, and lovers walked hand-in-hand. …

Yoga Retreat

6 min read

Published in The Narrative

·Sep 6, 2021

7 Tips for the Top of Your First Fourteener

Grand, towering mountains, snowcapped peaks, bluebird skies, and red rocks. Colorado is known for having the most fourteeners in the US, second only to Alaska. …

Hiking

5 min read

7 Tips for the Top of Your First Fourteener

Published in My Darling Simplicity

·Sep 4, 2021

Nicknames & Pickle Parties

It always seemed a little like magic to me. A rolling boil of salt and spices on the stove. Jar after jar lined up on the counter. …

Host

7 min read