Sublime

reverie,

required. Although these last few years have been wrenching and difficult—sometimes almost impossible—they have also been the most beautiful and profound of my life, requiring the daily act of holding life and death, joy and pain in balance and exploring new depths of gratitude and love.

Luxury is a weakness.

a Coming of Age story, or Bildungsroman, or maybe a Rags to Riches story—but

To be alone and surviving is not the same as being alive,

antediluvian

Jeevan was crushed by a sudden certainty that this was it, that this illness Hua was describing was going to be the divide between a before and an after, a line drawn through his life.