Healthy Expat Parent

“Friendship has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same anxiety for the fifth time. To sit through silence. To remain available without agenda. And perhaps this is why adult friendship feels increasingly radical. It resists the transactional logic modern life rewards everywhere else. Because a real friend offers something profoundly rare: unoptimised presence. Family is structured by blood

Things come together and then they fall apart. Again, they come together and again fall apart. This is the nature of things, the natural ebb and flow of life, of being, of existing. Not just as a human, but as a part of nature and all things created to ebb and flow together. When things fall apart, this is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think the point is to overcome a dilemma or pass a test, but perhaps it is more useful to know that things don't really

I love avocados. I think I could enjoy them every day, and not get bored. Not just because they are tasty – because ohmygoodness, are...