About (English)
Ren, the Lotus Rabbit
A nurse raised in a home where Buddhism was always close by.
After caring for young children in the hospital, I now sit beside many people in their final days.
Life is a practice
Even the things that don’t go well are lessons worth learning.
Even suffering is a matter of how you choose to receive it.
That said — it isn’t the same as simply enduring.
Change your perspective, and it’s just a path you’re passing through.
Everything is connected
In the grass, in the trees, even in a cucumber on the kitchen table —
there is life in all things.
I try to live with my hands quietly joined, thankful for the ties I cannot see.
Beside life
Caring for lives just beginning and lives coming to a close,
I’ve been taught, again and again, how precious it is to be alive.
The people in these stories have been gently changed so that no one can be identified.
End-of-life care, memorial, carrying feelings forward
Toward a life without regret.
What matters most is living with gratitude.
And I hope the last words I leave behind are simply, “thank you.”
Carried in song
Some of these stories have become songs.
On days when reading feels like too much, you’re welcome to just listen.
Today, too, I want to say it: thank you.