Marie

To a friend who appeared in our lives, like a gift. Dear friend, There are things we have long wanted to say to you, and yet never quite knew how. Because what you have done for us is so much,...

There are always people around us who anxiously fight for what is theirs. Before the time even comes, they are already there, afraid they'll be shortchanged, afraid that what ought to be theirs might slip away. To be honest, I...

One day, coming home, I saw my mother in the kitchen, steaming buns. Steam rising everywhere, the whole house filled with that warm, homely air. And in that moment, my heart felt so healed. I felt that, right then, I...

There is an old saying we hear from childhood. Give a rose to another, and its fragrance lingers on your own hand. As a child I didn't understand it, and took it only as words urging us to be kind....

Lately I keep thinking about the word language. Social media has grown so vast that many truths, many things the great figures once said, ordinary people can now say too. Sometimes anyone around you can offer up a whole string...

This past April, I visited Gordon Gu's museum. As I stepped through the entrance, I saw two words on the wall. To perceive. At the time, I felt nothing in particular. To perceive was just a word to me, a...

These past two years, I've been searching, trying to understand myself, and what it really is that we live for. A few days ago, I think I found the answer. That day, my friend, Dapeng, and I took the children...

Something suddenly became clear to me. Why the people who are willing to give first so often live a whole life of abundance. It's because they are in accord with the Tao, in accord with the way this universe moves....

I love taking my child, and his good friends, out to play. Watching those children run around, innocent and free, with those bright, radiant smiles on their faces, my heart just fills with happiness. Later I realized it isn't only...