Hello. I’m Ren, the lotus rabbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This blog is called Nagi no Aru Kurashi \u2014 “A Life with Nagi.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nagi is a Japanese word for the moment after a storm at sea, when the wind dies down and the waves grow still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may have heard it in words like asanagi, the morning calm, or y\u016bnagi, the evening calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I chose this word for a reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m a nurse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once worked on a ward for young children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Little lives, just beginning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
were already facing illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I sit beside many people in their final days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lives that have barely begun,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and lives that have traveled a long way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beside either one, I was taught the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That life is never something to take for granted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That being near the people you love,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and being able to say what you need to say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
is more precious than we know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So much in life doesn’t go the way we hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things that feel unfair. Things that hurt. Things we can’t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Storms come to small children,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and to those who have lived a long life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As long as we are alive, the storms won’t disappear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But even a rough sea grows calm in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the storm, there comes a moment when the heart quietly settles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I grew up in a home where Buddhism was always close by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is life in all things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything is connected, and everything changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don’t understand the difficult sutras very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I know that this way of seeing can gently calm a troubled heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this blog,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I write about what I’ve felt beside life,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
the small moments in everyday life that made me want to join my hands,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
and what they’ve taught me about being alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These stories are drawn from many experiences, and changed so that no one can be identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of them have also become songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On days when reading feels like too much, you’re welcome to just listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toward a life without regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What matters most is living with gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I hope the last words I leave behind are simply, “thank you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m still on that path, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn’t a place for finding the right answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If, after reading, you think for a moment of someone dear to you, that would make me glad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take your time. Read, and listen, at your own pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May a quiet nagi come to your heart today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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