This is another thing that makes letting go difficult. The things in our life—people, places, experiences, dreams—all rest on each other, like blocks in a building. Some are more important than others, some are less so. Some of them are integral. Some are the foundation. But move enough blocks, even the secondary ones, and everything starts to

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Furniture is solid. Furniture is dependable. Furniture is rarely changing. Furniture is the heavy things that hold down the corners of your life.

But when you live in another country, like me, and you’re never sure how long, exactly, you’ll be living in that country, like me, your relationship to heavy things changes. Maybe this is true if you’ve... See more

when you're often reminded that the country in which you live will never fully embrace you as its citizen, when your movement between frontiers has been conditional for most of your life, you develop an embodied understanding of how you occupy space in places and move with a unique sense of awareness and respect