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Let All Sorrow Ripen in Me

Uncategorized30 November 2025685Views 0Likes 1Comment

I dip into a book to help soothe the sorrow and overwhelm I feel at the continuing devastation and tragedy in the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah. I am acutely aware of the blessing that I am not among the countless number of our people affected in the last three days. Nature does not discriminate, in…

Painting of monk walking through thresholds implying in-between places. Fallen flowers imply impermanence

When Life Is In-Between: How Liminal Spaces Change Identity

Liminal Spaces, Writing30 October 20251KViews 0Likes 0Comments

How illness revealed the quiet transformation that happens in life’s in-between spaces. I’m not used to falling ill, until I did, this March, and found myself in unfamiliar territory: that of being a patient. I was in a liminal space—moving from being someone who rarely fell ill to someone who could hardly walk, uncertain when…

Tapestry of Life

Musings22 December 20111KViews 0Likes 2Comments

My dearest friends Whatever that can be said about 2011, is that it was not boring. Most would agree that 2011 has been a year full of surprises, excitement and lessons. This year saw the crumbling of many institutions, world wide social and economic activism and sadly loss of lives in human made conflicts and in natural…

The power of vulnerability

Inspiration28 December 2010612Views 0Likes 0Comments

Brene Brown is a "researcher storylteller" who studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. She says the the wholehearted have…

Let All Sorrow Ripen in Me

When Life Is In-Between: How Liminal Spaces Change Identity

Tapestry of Life

The power of vulnerability

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