Down Along the Same Stream

A note on Berkana’s New Section

Namaste Friends,

Over the last four years since I began Berkana, it has held space for many conversations and thoughts. I had no clear vision or niche in mind when I started writing because I never meant for Berkana to be about one specific thing. Yet it always leaned toward stories obscured by the tides of time.

There was a vague, self-effacing pressure I created for myself to swim through the ocean of voices I was narrating and find my own. In that way, Berkana has remained, and still is, a writer’s search for self and meaning in a world constantly overcompensating through personal achievement.

I think the point of writing is never being satisfied with knowing enough. The hunger for stories is existential in a writer and perhaps what makes a worthy one.