"'Dying isn’t the end of the world,' my mom liked to joke, after she was diagnosed as terminal. I didn’t really understand it until, suddenly, I did—when my breast cancer became metastatic and incurable. There are so many things that are worse than death: old grudges; a loveless life; insufficient self-awareness; severe constipation; a lack … Continue reading Dying Isn’t the End of the World
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Home is a Cup of Tea
"Home is the aggregate of our journeys, a collection of people and places, memories and experiences, each home building on the last. It's the same beauty found in icicles, honeycombs and pearls. But this doesn't happen overnight — like José himself said, in our equation for home, and like Zyah and I would always wait, … Continue reading Home is a Cup of Tea
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