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  • Seeing All The Sides

    Seeing All The Sides

    When I was 12 a friend plucked a white hair from my head and showed me it; holding it up to the light. I laughed and laughed. This was an unexpected quirk in my day. Eclectic. Funny.  When I was in my twenties I saw colonies of white hairs. This time I had a different…

  • A Wabi-Sabi Approach To Life, OR Appreciating Moss Covered Pocketbooks In The Woods

    A Wabi-Sabi Approach To Life, OR Appreciating Moss Covered Pocketbooks In The Woods

    Nothing’s perfect, nothing’s finished, nothing is forever.   Feeling quite chan right now. So often conversations falter. We cannot find the word that translates what we want to say. There are languages that have words for these moments. Chan is an example. It’s Mandarin Chinese and it is untranslatable to English. It means having a…