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October Letter: Loneliness
Dear friend, Do you ever feel lonely? Do you ever feel isolated, divorced from other beings, divorced from the world itself? “No man is an island,” but what if one feels like one? Do you ever long for the things you imagine others do in togetherhood, ashamed because you do not, yet helpless as to…
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A September Letter: The Tune of Beauty
Dear friends, Life is fickle, is it not? As I mentioned in my last post, grappling with uncertainty is hard. And there are many unknowns these days. I know this to be true in my own life. Unknowns — delay, despair, death — wreak chaos… and how can one edify chaos? How can one live…
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Expectations
Establishing expectations is the human attempt to organize and control an unknown future. Through their formation, we banish — at least momentarily — the jarring fact of life’s uncertainty. Expectations stand as frames of reference by which we dream, plan, and make decisions. At heart, they are hospitable to our desires. We approach life —…
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A Summer Letter
Dear friends, I hope you are well. It’s been a while since I’ve written on here. Please forgive my recent lack of consistency — the past few weeks have been pretty busy. This summer, we traveled back to the states for a two-month summer visit. It has been an exciting, hectic whirlwind of an adventure.…
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On Quiet Beauty
The faint call of a bird whispers to me as I sit at my desk. Drained mentally and physically from deadlines and studies, eyes strained, I pause to listen. Silence steadies my breath. I look out my window as the evening light bathes the front yard in a soft, golden glow. The bird trills again,…
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Shattered Shells: Trust for 2021 (& a poem)
As a ferocious planner, trust has always been a hard issue for me. I’ve always had a desire to know. To know what’s coming, what tomorrow brings, what the future holds… Unknowns are my darkest foes. Like jack-in-a-boxes, you never know what the box of Life holds or what to expect. In the past, I’ve…