Isn’t it amazing that you can meet a person, a perfect stranger, and very quickly feel a connection? When I saw my husband for the first time, 38 years ago, on the Orient Express, I was backpacking with my roommate from college. We were en route to Greece, and he was backpacking on his way […]
Mishap Fertility and the Cloak of Invisible Grief
Anyone who has gone through a miscarriage will tell you, if you care and take the time to listen, of the eviscerating gut wrenching experience of loss that takes over your body, heart and mind. Then there is the agony of actually getting your cycle when your whole heart hopes for the very opposite, a […]
Courage, the Cornerstone of Growth
“Let me not beg for the stilling of pain, but for the heart to conquer it” Rabindranath Tagore The word courage contains in its root the French word ‘coeur’ (i.e. heart). In its etymology, courage implies an ability to face negative circumstances with a heart full of determination. The ability to examine one’s heart and […]
The Art of Balance
We admire dancers and acrobats as they perform feats of balance against gravity that require concentration and mastery. And the knowing between our own needs and the needs of others is a lifelong pursuit of psychological balance that we as humans endeavor to achieve throughout all the stages of our life. Such psychological balance […]
Hollywood and the Dance of False Intimacy
Engracia Gill; January 2017 I was watching a romantic comedy, “Blind Date” on Netflix this last weekend. The movie happens to actually be a French movie. The story, of course, applied the classic formula of “boy meets girl, boy/girl breaks up with boy/girl and boy/girl make up and are happily together forever more”. This movie […]