Category: Project
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twenty-five
The jubilee year which happens every 25 years is here! To turn 25 the same year is an incredible blessing. This year, I’ve been brought back into my faith, living life fully alive in Christ – receiving sacramental graces that I once neglected. It is indeed the best year of my life so far. I…
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Anniversary
God gave His first commandment to man, be fruitful and multiply.” The three highest loves in order are love for God, love for your children and love for your husband or wife. As a family of six, my parents have indeed multiplied as God had commanded, and they strive to maintain the order of love…
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Mayflower
This year in the month of May, a ship set sail to find new horizons – a birth of freedom in the search of the unknown. It came as a surprise that someone like myself, a person who would rather explore in their own imagination than to explore the world, departed from familiar soil to…
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Sutured Heart
December is the month of reflection before the new year… unless we want to make the same mistakes. I like to describe it like the period after a break up and before a start of a new relationship – the previous year was messy but it had its good points too? But the challenge lies…
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Universe of Man
What drives you? For the last four years, I was driven by extrinsic motivation to complete my nursing and midwifery degree. In other words, I pursued the degree at the expense of what gives me satisfaction and meaning in life, or so I thought. I felt the need to be validated by my family and…
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Turning 22
Creativity is multi-faceted – it’s about problem-solving, creating new ideas and exploring the unknown. The downside of this is that innovation can be a bit “mad”. Duality is at its core, acting as both a catalyst and an inhibitor. Thus, the root cause of confusion in the individual is almost always, ‘am I creating more…
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Pegasus Mountain
Without realizing, the beauty that I cherished as a child has influenced the beauty I see in the everyday. This ‘beauty’ was not physical but abstract and relational. The story of a boy and his grandfather in ‘Green Grow the Mountains’ by Ichisaburo Sawai has remained with me since childhood. It filled, at the time,…
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The Finale
The finality of a finale is, at times, anything but final. Within the fine print are grey sentences riddled with incomplete thoughts, generalized statements, false premises, blurry emotions and hyperboles of the past, lingering in memory. Yet, the unknown is willing it into existence. Gaps become deeper if they aren’t filled; the silence between two…
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True Love
A tangled mess or a web of red, how love thrives is in its dwelling in everything. In 2021, I fell into my own rabbit hole of non-fiction books. All of which were about people describing their loss and grief of a loved one, and they inspired me to look closely at this specific type…
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Journals: On Authenticity
How can you be more “authentic”? Let’s say you’re an artist and one day, you find yourself miserable and lonely, so you create paintings that depict your sadness and trauma. I’ve seen this often and I find that negative emotions fuel the creative person and bring out their desire for self-expression. Those feelings were authentic.…
Noelle m. 