![]() ![]() We wake upĮach time my world has fallen apart and come together again I was deeply changed….as if I’d been asleep and suddenly woke up. And yet each time things did come together again. ![]() Earthquakes, war, poverty, divorce, death of parents and two husbands, cancer. Wondering if there’s any way to breathe again, to survive. I have surely experienced things falling apart in my life big time. And economic consequences that are still murky. My heart aches when I think of all the people around the world whose lives have been deeply affected by illness and death. The pandemic is things falling apart on a big scale. The falling apart can be devastating and the coming together fabulous! ![]() Is it true that things really do come together and fall apart over and over and then you die? I think it is true, and that’s why Chodron, a Buddhist nun, encourages us to accept that reality. The sentence after the above quote, from Chodron’s priceless book When Things Fall Apart, is,“It’s just like that.” Yikes. Then they come together again and fall apart again.” - Pema Chodron " The truth is that things don’t really get solved. ![]()
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