An Old Lady in Purple, by Siew Bee LimThe Dignity of Time
Seneca once remarked that life is long enough if we know how to use it. We often mistake the passage of years for a slow erosion of the self, assuming that as the body gathers the weight of experience, the spirit must necessarily dim. Yet,…
The Weight of Stillness
How much of our history is written in the lines of a face we have never met? We often assume that to know a person, we must hear their voice or trace the path of their days, yet there is a profound language in simple presence. We are all vessels…
The Weight of Small Things
Epictetus famously taught that we are not disturbed by things themselves, but by the views we take of them. He suggested that if we could strip away the layers of judgment we place upon our circumstances, we might find a surprising lightness…