To the One Who Sees Me
Thank you for asking yesterday: How is your heart, dear Leny? Do you know how rare it is that I get asked this question? And when you did, I got teary-eyed, just as I am tearing up now writing this. You see me; you are one of the few with this uncanny ability to know what I am thinking and feeling even when I am silent. You feel me even when you are on the other side of the Ocean. And so it is that a week ago, you felt ‘tremors’ on my side of the world and you wondered what w
Falling in Love... with a Tree
One of my students once said: Leny, in my mind I keep thinking and saying “I Love Nature” but I don’t feel it in my body, in my emotions, in my heart. I want to change that. So one of the exercises I do in class is to tell the students to go outside and find a Tree and sit under its canopy or sit next to a Rock in silence. Listen. Be Quiet. Wait. Stay still until the Tree or Rock starts talking back to you.Then come back inside and write in your journals. One student said tha
