Part 3- Why I Finally Decided to Write This Book

I didn’t sit down one day and decide to write a memoir. If anything, the book decided it was time, and I was just the last person to find out.

After years of collecting places, people, mistakes, and stories, something finally became clear: there was a thread running underneath all of them. A quiet house, five years of unfinished memories, and a trip to Peru in 2023 gave me enough space to finally see it.

No Mud, No Lotus began when I stopped running from the question my life had been asking me for years—and started writing down the answer.