Tag Archives: death

As the glacier melts into the earth

Posted on March 18, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

What has defined it drains away until it becomes unrecognizable and yet, life depends upon entering into foreignness © Meisaan Chan (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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The acceptance

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Meisaan Chan

All my ways are death paths all your ways are life paths © Meisaan Chan

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The unfeared descent

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

The sun knows its slow descent but note how it does not just go out: at its lowest point, it unfurls its majesty, its moment of greatest open giving © Meisaan Chan  

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In remembrance

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Memories unfold origami flowers always blooming © Meisaan Chan

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That which shall not pass away

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Meisaan Chan

Sometimes I grow fearful knowing you could die at any moment; then God turns my thoughts to the anchor, the anchor for me the anchor for you © Meisaan Chan

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A day at the beach, 1905

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  What happens to our joy when we die to our frolicking under the sun or our contentment of digging our toes in the sand; what happens to the love of ghosts, these centuries standing on the shoulders of millennia … Continue reading →

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Rest can look like death

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Meisaan Chan

  Rest can look like death but don’t let fear of stopping stop you     © Meisaan Chan   (Photo credit: National Geographic)

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