There are days when you feel like everything speaks to your soul. When the breeze rustling through the trees is your friend, telling you of precious secrets. When the rain beating down on the ground is a song you understand, and—what’s more—is your song, too. It is then that you become creative, that you dust off the corners of your soul, and spread your wings, and show the people around you who you really are.…
I always mean to write here, but then things after things often happen at the moment when you least expect them to. There are so many things I want to share, so many things I feel like I should talk about to fulfil the purpose of this blog, which was supposed to be like that a breakfast nook where we can chitchat about anything under the sun while buttering our toast and sipping our coffee.…
Have you ever set out to do something, start something—walked that first step towards a dream you've always had, signed up for that course you've always dreamed of taking—but only ended up stopping? Perhaps, you stopped due to fear. Perhaps, a voice inside your mind, a voice you've been trying to silence for years, told you that you would never make it, you were never enough. Perhaps, some form of doubt reached out and grabbed…
Written on July 20, 2020 How familiar we have become with grief in the past several months and what more in the last hours. When they announced the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown across the city, I wasn't sure how to respond. With disbelief? With anxiety and trepidation? One day stretched into another. The weeks turned into months. Slowly we learned to cope with a new kind of normal, a new kind of existing…
Have you ever built a dream for yourself? A dream about your family or your future? I'm sure you've built some through the years. Dreams about what we want to do, where we want to go, where we want to live. Dreams about our careers, dreams about our lives. I do not doubt that we've all done that at some point in our lives.We have, also, at some point, for some reason or circumstance that…
Sometimes, you find yourself in the Place of In-Betweens. That valley in the middle of where you’ve come and where you’re going next. That space of silence between discovering something and reacting to it. It is that moment of hesitance, that limbo of uncertainty. Of not knowing where you are going next. Or doing next. Or how you should be reacting, responding. I found myself in a Place of In-Betweens a few years ago. We…
If there's anything I'm learning these past few days—and perhaps years even—it's all about taking a breath and stopping for a while. Letting yourself calm down. Learning to relax. Rest. Even as I say it, my mind is racing with the things I need to do. Deadlines that I have (self-imposed or actual). Endless to-do lists where more items are added than there are removed. “There’s that post I need to write.” “I have something…
It’s a pretty crazy world we live in these days. It’s calm where I’m sitting while I write this, but outside, there’s just so much going on. It’s been almost two years since the day the world was shut down for the first time and a lockdown was declared on our city. Almost two years of wondering just how crazy this virus is going to get, almost two years of wondering if it will all…
“But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.”- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader When we think of the word courage, it usually comes with the words "strength" and "boldness" and "facing our giants". We think of slaying down those fearsome foes, even…
Hey, you. Yes, you. I see you, laughing, chatting with your friends. I’m talking to you as you sit in the crowd, wearing a brave smile that quite doesn’t reach your eyes. I see you making an effort to be cheerful because you don’t want to burden the people around you. They don’t know it. They don’t know that smiling and laughing with them takes so much effort. They don’t know that you’re doing all…