That roller coaster analogy about life. As I contemplate it, it doesn’t really make sense. Unless,that is, you are terrified of roller coasters and got strapped to one unwillingly. Since, don’t we get on that roller coaster for the thrill of the downs? What would aptly describe the... Read More
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In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
This is probably not a good habit. We’re getting more skilled and fearless at being at the outpatient side of a hospital later into the night. And now, past midnight. As foreigners. With signage in a foreign language. The international department closed. Hallways that are always intensely... Read More
Gratitude and Merry Christmas!
In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison Sep... Read More
Heartbeats
I awoke with my heart racing. I squeezed hard, like doing an isometric exercise, or like when one is hurrying the big deed in the bathroom. It usually does the trick for me to revert the heart from being in afib back to normal rhythm. Didn’t work. Repeat three more times. Now I’m... Read More
Mid Autumn Thanksgiving
A recap of September. Radiation therapy, part two, concluded two days prior to Chuseok (추석). Chuseok falls on the same day as the Chinese mid-autumn festival. It is often termed the Korean Thanksgiving. Though the similarities with Thanksgiving seems to simply be the fact that it is a long... Read More