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"Illness and death concern me less than life, which is what I would really like to resolve or to accept". This is what I told my niece Lucia more than a week ago when I was about to begin my silent retreat. In a recent colonoscopy, which is not so unusual at my age, 47, they saw a "mass" which...

Very often, when I see clearly, when I'm able to organize reality as it is and my dreams and difficulties, together with my successes, vulnerabilities and strengths, I try to investigate why and how I feel sometimes down. My baggage is one of anxiety and depression, true, although I understand and I explain moments of sadness and agitation as part...

I am devastated by the act of cruelty that ended the life of George Floyd last May 25th in Minneapolis, US. The uprisings that followed are something inevitable, I would say, given the social schism and extreme inequality made obvious with the Covid-19 pandemic, and fostered by the attitudes of many which do not promote social dialogue.

I do not wish to fill up your screens with another opinion, another video, or another piece of advice in the midst of what is probably the strangest situation we have ALL encountered collectively (and we have experienced strange situations...). Interestingly, the most valuable thing we can do for each other nowadays is probably doing less, except...