Monthly Archives: January 2023

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it’s right or wrong. I accept everything that happens…says a character in Haruki Murakami’s “Kafka on the Shore”. Accepting the truth of the past, of the present is not always easy. We can hold on to resentment for things done to us, and we can hold onContinue reading “Finding our Way”

I’ve been watching the Netflix series “Ginny and Georgia” with my youngest daughter. Its off-beat humor has been a fun distraction…until the most recent episode when one of the characters (I don’t think this is a spoiler) explores his depression. In detail. The camera angle is from above; you see him plop into bed, describeContinue reading “Whispers”

Recently, I find myself turning to the Japanese poetic form zuithitsu. It’s hard to define zuithitsu; some say it is comparable to the lyric essay, others a list poem, and others call it chaotic, fragmented, un-definable. Which is exactly why it resonates with me right now. I find myself more at home in fragmentation thanContinue reading “Zuihitsu”

Happy 2023. May it be a blessed year for us all! May it also be a year of honesty. Starting with ourselves. Starting with asking ourselves, how are you really? And I mean really.  Whatever you are feeling. I mean whatever. Because that is where the suffering/struggle starts…that first flicker of a feeling that feelsContinue reading “Hybrida”