The Gift of Unbreakable Faith
The Gospel readings this past week have been leading up to the Transfiguration of Christ, with the underlying thread among all the readings “who do you say I am?” Throughout…
Category: Battling depression
Distance and Closeness
“There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in…
Let Go of Two Things At A time
What it is about the number two? In the bible, Noah led the animals into the arc in twos, and somehow, everything in our lives is defined by the number…
Commuter Adventures: A Close Call
There are days that I wish never would have happened, but as an old friend used to say, even the worst days can be chalked up to experience. Yesterday was…
Always A Woman
In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady. In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that I…
Once Upon A Plant
I suppose I can claim that I inherited my grandmother’s green thumb. Her little garden was full of potted plants and she hardly bought any of them. The quantity came…
Perspectives and Challenges
The concept of Blue Monday is new to me inspite of it being around since 2005 as part of a PR campaign. The pseudoscience idea behind is quite bizarre since…
January Is Almost Over!
I am not sure whether this is a good thing or not. I promised myself that I would undertake a lot of significant changes in my life this year, and…
