Welcome.

Dostiyan Days is a place to think out loud about friendship, belonging, beauty, grief, curiosity, and the strange work of becoming fully human.

For much of my life, I believed that if I worked hard enough, learned enough, or cared enough, the world would eventually make sense. The past few years have gently (and sometimes not so gently) taught me otherwise.

Rather than chasing certainty, I’ve become more interested in living the questions.

I believe in the healing power of friendship, in curiosity, and, most of all, in wonder. Despair rarely changes anything. Beauty, on the other hand, has an uncanny way of opening us to one another — and sometimes even to ourselves.

“Dostiyan” translates most simply as “friendship,” but the word carries something richer: the kind of enduring bond that survives time, distance, disagreement, and change. The friendships that become part of who we are.

This blog is my attempt to unpack the moment we’re living — not as an expert with answers, but as a fellow traveler paying close attention. I’ll write about life in both Mexico and California, and about community, politics, climate, family, creativity, spirituality, love, loss, and whatever else insists on being explored.

If any of these questions are yours too, I’m glad you’re here.