I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. ~Neil Gaiman~ I’ve been making new resolutions for a long, long time, and I’ve been procrastinating on some things, and sometimes, I’ve achieved more than my goals, too.

But loving-kindness — maitri — toward ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to change ourselves. ~Pema Chödrön~ As I got my new book yesterday afternoon; The Wisdom Of No Escape by Pema Chördön, I immediately read it this morning. …

What are your priorities? — After 5 years of friendship, I married my best friend, my teammate. We have been married for more than 10 years. Every time we pass another year, we looked at each other and can not believe the time has passed so fast. I challenge myself every day to feel like…

I feel sick every time I hear or read a racist remark. We need to open our minds and question our perceptions. — “What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew I grew up in a small town in Flores island, Indonesia. When I was a child, people there…

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” ~Henry Ford~ “ I hate math. I am bad at math. My name is always at the bottom of the board in the class.” …

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” ~Candace Bushnell~ How long have you been married? How’s your marriage life? If you open this article, I congratulate you for being an open-minded person who wants to have a better relationship with your partner. Do you…

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~Alfred Lord Tennyson~ Today is the end of 2020, let’s be grateful we are still here, breathing and alive. If we survived in 2020, we will be a much stronger person in 2021! Nothing will hold us back if we let go and trust ourselves on this journey. Whatever it…

Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter ~Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1 Scene 1. 45–47~ Patrick, my son was struggling for a minute with some string membrane from a piece of melon on his fork. When he asked for my help, I put the melon inside my mouth and ate it. His mouth was open like he…

That afternoon, my ex-roommate called me. I remember her Aunt after a while and asked about her. “…. Aunt Ellie scolded Andrea while she arranged the food on Mario’s plate! Andrea was so surprised. I could tell, she didn’t know how to react.” “Why is that so?” “She said that…