Sunday, April 26, 2009

Remembrance

I am listening to my new Tibetan music cd in the background. I have enjoyed this style of music from the first moment I heard it, was it in Qingdao at the tv station tower gift shop? I heard it again in Hong Kong but finally bought some cds yesterday in Qufu. It’s Buddhist chanting in Tibetan or Sanskrit accompanied by beautiful music and is very soothing.


I am hoping the chanting will help me find some balance today. My heart is filled with sadness for a friend from Ottawa who just passed away. He would have approved. I am overwhelmed by his loss and how it is affecting his wife and our other friends. We had lost touch in the years since I left that company but had reconnected recently. I am grateful for that. I will remember Kevin for his smile, his understated ways and his kind heart.


Living abroad has been hard in some ways. Dealing with loss from so far away is one of them.

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