Tonight I receive news that a friend has had a serious accident. The information is sketchy — how? why? So much is unknown. Yet he is alive.
There are waves of emotion, then I forget, or they subside. Then I feel something else, and something else, and something else. How must it be for his family? A man of exceptional beauty, so lovely and true. And just last night we were talking about his magnificent dragon tattoo, his marvelous smile.
How fragile we are, how fleeting this life, how uncertain and precarious. And that’s the fabulously terrible beauty, too, anything/everything possible at every (this very) moment.
Fleeting
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Enseignante Zen et poète, Sensei Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell est née et a grandi à Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis. Arrivée en France en 1981 pour étudier la littérature et l’histoire, elle y est restée, s’installant à Paris, où elle élève ses deux enfants et gagne sa vie en tant que journaliste.
The Zen teacher and poet Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell Sensei was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her two children and making a living as a journalist.
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