Tag: meditation
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On Self-Hospitality and The Right to Be Celebrated
My ‘ghosts’ are no longer the ones who tell me to save the silver for a better day… The temperature of the room slightly alters when the fire from the fireplace crackles in the air. The sweet peppery smell of fresh white freesia starts to fill in the room as the linen thwacked on the…
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The Discipline of Quiet Work: Between Studio and Study
“My real profession is medicine, but I sometimes write (music) in my spare time.” – Anton Chekhov An artist paints in a studio; an academic works at the desk. Both work in silence, slightly out of sync with the outside world. Isolation is not the enemy; more often, it becomes a quiet companion in the…
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Lohengrin and the Grace of Disappearance
De Animalibus, illustration by author, 2026 There are periods in history which later generations are fast to call dark or stagnated, not because nothing of significant occurred within them, but because what occurred resisted immediate visibility. ‘A foggy period’ one may call; something which is often mistaken for emptiness. Yet in nature, fog gathers only…
Shima Trisna 