Category Archives: recovery

Breaking the status quo

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes, in order to heal you need to plunge your hands into the wound and pull out the long-raging infection © Meisaan Chan

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The mutual bleeding

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

I have hurt you and in hurting you, I bleed © Meisaan Chan

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There is a time to pity the self

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

There is a time to pity the self and a time to challenge it to more © Meisaan Chan

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Always and forever

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

No one said the path would become this foreign and yet still, you go before me © Meisaan Chan (Photo Credit: National Geographic)

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The importance of tending

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Fear can be the muck of fertile soil but if left untended, it will just be muck © Meisaan Chan

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Infinite forms

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

It does not matter that the light takes infinite forms; they all drive away the dark © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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Sometimes I marvel at how twisted life can be

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I marvel at how twisted life can be confusing, fearful, yet amazing; when I get beyond myself, I see infinite points of contemplation © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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The partner’s response

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

“Help me,” I say. “Make rotting flesh new.” “I am not Santa,” God says. “If you want it, you must work.” © Meisaan Chan

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We’re making it out of here alive: yes

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

We’re making it out of here alive: yes the jaws snapped shut without us death-paths turn to life-paths; we run hand in hand, hearts take to flight © Meisaan Chan  

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Fear and love

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

True fear binds with a million leashes; true love breaks through them all © Meisaan Chan

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