Despite being unverified, the famous story of the Austrian-Czech writer and the little doll continues to touch and heal countless people
human connection
Family and Meaning: Serenity of the Path’s Depth
Part Two in a six-piece series of reflections by Dr. Anthony C C Lok, Chinese Buddhist layman
The Disbanding of an Assumption
doubting you would, under the Ford Street Bridge at dawn, you kissed me, as a trumpet vine grabs onto every available surface, on arbors, fences, telephone poles, and trees, you wrapped your tendrils into my yellow throat and made the world feel closer than it ever has before.Unmediated by the veil of what we think we know, I kissed you back, and together we became unfamiliar, like finding new oceans.
Unopened Presents
Breakfast in bed. A kiss on the cheek. The universe at our fingertipsalive with possibility like unopened presentsinside each other’s eyes.
No Order of Things
my feet knit the socksthat knit her knitting-needlesthat knit herand send her to the riverwhere she finds the rockthat sets her on a pathto where i’m waiting for herthough neither of us knows it