• Posts Tagged ‘relief’

    Breathing Space

    by  • August 22, 2014 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    My guess is we all have those moments when it feels like the walls of life are pressing in on us. Or, rather, the walls of being alive press on us. Decisions squeeze us, and choices ask for a decision. Sometimes, it’s the wheeze of mortality heard way to close to us, through a...

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    “Year Zero”: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    by  • October 21, 2012 • LifeStuff • 0 Comments

    Tonight, after taking time to make two loaves of bread, I watched a documentary my friend Gwen Sun loaned me, encouraging me to understand what had happened in a country she loves. The documentary, made by a British journalist named John Pilger, was filmed in 1979, four years after America’s withdrawal from Cambodia allowed...

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