Derek Dodds

July 30, 2015

A Sinaloan Road Trip: Why Surfers Risk Everything for Waves

Everyone said I shouldn’t go. “It’s dangerous down there right now,” my friends and family told me. In fact, just a few kilometers from where we stay, two Australian surfers disappeared and lost their lives in a horrific story of injustice and brutality. According to reports, they were pulled over by assassins dressed in police...CONTINUE READING

Category:Life Lessons, Travel

Tag:Buddhism, Mexico, Surfing

July 30, 2013

Pulsating Pensivity

by Derek Dodds

broken raindrops of existence kindled by flames of eternity grasped by the throat of time dripping memories from my glass of wine bloodstained youth of– dreamless dreams running in circles of– meanless means twisting away on the cosmic vine

Category:Poems & Prose

July 31, 2012

Are You Leading A Secondhand Life?

by Derek Dodds

I was living a secondhand life for many years, like an old worn-out t-shirt hanging on the thrift store rack, waiting for someone to take me home so that I could live in their dream world and not mine. The umbilical cord of life is longer than ever before, and in many cases, it is...CONTINUE READING

Category:Life Lessons

Tag:Purpose, Writing

July 30, 2012

Ode To Life

by Derek Dodds

ode to emotion and desireblinded by my oceanic dream-like imagination reborn to myself, in myselfre-birthing my energetic ability to march, dance, and sing ode to standing up to a new way of living yes—an ode to myself to the lion’s roarmy roar to the heartfelt understanding that life in not overthat life has just begunand...CONTINUE READING

Category:Poems & Prose

July 30, 2010

Mar & The Guitar

by Derek Dodds

Mar & The Guitar | Canon 6D | Ojai, California 2016 | © Derek Dodds

Category:D's Art

Tag:Photography

July 30, 2007

It Only Takes One Wave To Change You Forever: J-bay South Africa

by Derek Dodds

Traveling isn’t always easy: different beds, snoring friends, babies crying, funky food—’for the last time, vegetarian does not mean I eat chicken.’ Having been cursed in countries south of the border for decades, you would think I would have learned by now as I run out to the reception with a hopeful expression on my...CONTINUE READING

Category:Travel

Tag:South Africa, Surfing

July 30, 2005

Truth’s Dance

by Derek Dodds

i met this guy in Mexico years backand he had this huge tattoo on his armhe was powerfulInsightfullike a shaman i instantly felt he was my brothersoul-type-brotherand i asked him what veritas meant he said truthit hit me hardit struck me like a boltright in the center of my being because i knew that what...CONTINUE READING

Category:Poems & Prose

Tag:Mexico

July 30, 2004

I Am

by Derek Dodds

sun shaped silhouettes of silenceseduced sensitivitygently shaping my reality tears of broken dreamsshattered by a softness of unfathomable understandingimpregnated peace drips like honey from the fountainof my own courageto live in truth mysteriousmysticalmagical the bird song tells the complete story shuuuuuuujust listen, my friend silence the ground squirrels even know the secretkept by a thousand...CONTINUE READING

Category:Poems & Prose

Tag:Poem