Category: people
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The Art of Moving
Nothing can prepare you for the whirlwind that is moving countries. Getting a visa is when it begins to get real. Everything before that feels up in the air; fragile. Once the initial giddiness settles down, strange fears start creeping in. What if something goes wrong? What if we don’t like it? We’ll be away…
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Being Generous
Being generous isn’t only about donating your wealth to the needy (though that helps) It’s also about being present It’s listening to someone earnestly As if every word they’re uttering is a spell And every insecurity, doubt and fear they have persists for a reason And that reason may be powerful but not invincible Being…
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The Monastery
I find myself standing in a long queue in a dimly-lit hall. There’s an aisle leading up to a door framed by thick, heavy curtains. Long, steely corridors. Red granite floors. Sunlight struggling to permeate through the dark tapestries. I see a young man in a maroon toga, scrambling down the aisle. His head…
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Ransacked
You ransack my soul With a breathless swoosh You colour me with your words A shade I never knew I could be You walk through my wreckage and pick up the shiniest parts of me You salvage me Like a sapling uprooted from a war-torn earth You nurture me in a garden you built…