Janeth Canama

  This year I lost my grandma from my paternal side. Her death coincided with my compre preparation. I haven’t visited her grave yet. I don’t know when. She was diagnosed with pneumonia. It could also have been COVID but they haven’t tested her. I don’t think I’ve fully processed it really. She was buried a day after her death. It was sad. You can just feel the energy of the house. Maybe it was her time to go. She’s lived a long life. I’ve lost some pets too. And I’m going to share my thoughts about it. What does it mean to care for someone? I have no idea. Nonetheless, it's all tied to our acceptance of death. Or death of a loved one. The impermanence of life. But it doesn't feel that way. It seems that we have all the time in the world. Until it's too late… Our cats have been breeding like crazy. And most of them don’t survive. Cat 1 (November 2020) It has been bothering me how life can be taken away just like that. I mean death is part of life. Plants die all the time. W...

 I really love how the white ink method is a metaphor for life. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done in the past. What your achievements were. What your goofs were. The most important thing is now.  The things that happened in the past start to fade into nothingness. So we shouldn’t mind them. Well except for a few which leave a mark. But what’s the probability of that happening? What are you going to write? Stop trying to read what you’ve written. Just write what’s coming in your mind. The important thing is to move forward. Don’t worry about the future either. Because it hasn’t happened yet. Just worry about the present.  The 1-second radius of now.  *** You know it's so nice and all. And it makes sense! But applying it is hard. It's so easy to get overwhelmed with what's going on in our life and to worry about the future. But make a conscious effort to go back to the present.