I continue to think about the notion of empathy. It is probably the feeling that has helped me connect with most of the people I know and at the same time sabotaged my mental wellbeing the most.
Category: Clarity
Feeling worse to get better: a story of unschooling in midlife.
I realize that what I am going through is a process of unlearning and re-learning happening in parallel and that it is hard – especially in my fifth decade of life. At times it feels like I am singing two different tunes with the same mouth.
Racism across the border is easier to digest than the one at home. A story of selective anti-racism.
My journey to awareness took me first outside of my own country. I guess it had to make sense in larger concepts, in more distant contexts, before I could look in my own garden.
Somehow I always find myself missing a boundary …
These situations where I can see definite benefits and I feel encouraged by praise and at the same time I am unable to tell when I have crossed to the side of too much, unhealthy and mind numbing are such a mind fluck for me.
In the messy middle, between storm and stillness
Walking through a city park torn up by a fierce storm the other day, the metaphor was not lost on me. Huge trees lay splintered
Once a racist, always a racist!
It was my first time in Venice. The Glassmaker had charmed me into wanting to see the island of Murano and so, here we were,
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