the heart is soft2024: a year of longing/creation* I like to begin every year with a word or phrase that rings in my heart, and serves as a guide for the year ahead. In 2010, the phrase…Jan 9Jan 9
the heart is soft2023: a year of belonging (the ‘let’)* I like to begin every year with a word or phrase that rings in my heart, and serves as a guide for the year ahead. In 2010, the phrase…Jan 3Jan 3
the heart is soft2022: a year of healing (meeting myself)* I like to begin every year with a word or phrase that rings in my heart, and serves as a guide for the year ahead. In 2010, the phrase…Jan 2Jan 2
the heart is soft2021: a year of letting go, letting good* I like to begin every year with a word or phrase that rings in my heart, and serves as a guide for the year ahead. In 2010, the phrase…Jan 1Jan 1
the heart is softMarch 25, 2020: hibernationOn the balcony, in the midst of my self-quarantine, a question: what brings life to a city? Today, a siren echoes, then a police car #743…Mar 29, 2020Mar 29, 2020
the heart is softMarch 16, 2020: freedom in the darkInside a chapel made of brick and incense, we sat in a circle, silent. For the last two weeks, this has been our Tuesday night routine —…Mar 17, 2020Mar 17, 2020
the heart is softJanuary 28, 2020: davidsPsalm 51 is David’s declaration that he is broken. Every word finds a spot across the page like shards from a China vase flung across the…Feb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
the heart is softJanuary 8, 2020: ceilingI have a headache. From my addictions. The way they hollow you out, like a crater on Mars, so far away you cannot simply reach out and…Jan 12, 2020Jan 12, 2020
the heart is softJanuary 4, 2020: pedi-cureToday, I went for a pedicure. Kelvin felt it was time for one, so he, me and Asher went to a place in Penang. We are three musked-keteers…Jan 8, 2020Jan 8, 2020
the heart is softJanuary 2, 2020: re-What I am attempting to do is to recollect. Or re-collect, because the act of separating out words like brown grains from white rice is…Jan 2, 2020Jan 2, 2020