I wrote a book. Something simple, something true. Something I learned that has been beautiful and transformative for me. I put it on the Amazon kindle platform and priced it low. There is a paperback version as well. It’s about sharing something I believe is important. I hope you read it. I hope you try…
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Fully Revised and Expanded
The latest book by Kamal
I almost didn’t publish Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It. I was terrified. Here I was, a CEO who’d fallen apart after his company failed, writing a book about how loving himself saved him. I thought I’d be a laughing stock and my career would be finished...
Read MoreMagic
I finish at the gym, walk outside, and sit on a wall by the driveway. Indian summer evening in San Francisco. Breezy, cool, fog above downtown. Delicious. I love my life, I find myself thinking, I love my life, I love my life, I love my life. The thought flows as naturally as the wind….
Read MoreGravity
I am a comet She, an oasis planet. I have no choice but to blaze brilliantly as I enter her atmosphere.
Read MoreMuse
I love watching the way you look away to think, how beautiful you are, then you look back, the thought finished, and then you smile.
Read MoreI see you
“I’ve been thinking about you,” I say. “Me,” you say, the corners of your lips widening. A slow delicious smile. “What about me?” “Your eyes.” I inch closer. You let me. Your chest rises against mine, falls to my breath. “Your eyes,” I say again, “the freckles and sparkles, sometimes I think that if I…
Read MoreCircles
A friend waits the arrival of his baby, his first child. I can imagine the thoughts, the nervousness – holy shit! holy shit! – the wringing excitement. Next week, life, as he knows it, will be transformed. Thirteen years from now, he will attend his child’s Bat Mitzvah, then how many years to high school,…
Read MoreMultiple Universes
“…in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.” Each moment splits into its possibilities, minutely different life paths, and new Universes form. There is one where I call but you let it ring and ring into voicemail and I never call back. In another, I do. A Universe where you pick…
Read MoreGray beauty
It was 1998, I was at Victoria station, London, inside a phone booth, listening to my then-girlfriend back in the US tell me that she was seeing someone else. The tightening in my throat, my abdomen. I walked to the train, sat down in my seat facing London, gray. The train jerked, slowly pulled away,…
Read MoreLife-changing quote – 1
Once I realized the problem was not with you, but within me, I had inner peace and was able to harness the flow of the Universe. This is something I’ve been working on lately. It’s easy to focus on the outside, the person, the situation, what’s wrong. But that’s not where true change comes. If…
Read MoreThoughts on my birthday
Tempus fugit, memento mori. – Some Roman dude At this time, 21 years ago, I was at Fort Benning, shaved-head, doing pushups. 13 years ago, I was walking across Spain with a backpack. 11 years ago, I was watching Dot.coms – including the one I was at – implode, boom, wheeee. 10 years ago, a…
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