Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.
A foreign friend asked why Chinese grandmothers all wear jade bangles. The answer turned out to be about comfort, companionship, and two thousand years of quiet faith.
3 AM. Again. Not from an alarm, not from a nightmare. Just eyes flying open. I discovered that in Chinese medicine, every two-hour block has a meridian "on duty" — and waking at 3 AM is your Liver meridian sending an SOS.
After three weeks of overtime, my back started protesting. My mom pulled out a bamboo cup inherited from my grandmother and gave me my first cupping session. Seven circular marks — purple, black, red, pink — like moons on my back, like a map of my body.
