Ann Tashi Slater has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, and many others. Her work has been featured in Lit Hub and included in The Best American Essays. In her Darjeeling Journal column for Catapult, she writes about her Tibetan family history and bardo, and she blogged for HuffPost on similar topics. She presents and teaches workshops at Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, Asia Society, and The American University of Paris, among others. Her new book, Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World (Balance, Sept. 9, 2025), has been named a Next Big Idea Club “Must Read.” Learn more at anntashislater.com.
Ann Tashi Slater
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‘Tis the Season to Open Yourself to New Ways of Seeing
The time between the end of the year and the beginning of the next offer us opportunities to evolve, says Ann Tashi Slater. She shares how this seasonal time of bardo can serve as a quiet cave for insight and renewal.