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Faultlines

For a long time, I wore a jade bangle. It was a part of my arm, part of me. It had threads of deep and lighter green, red-browns, and specks of white. In Chinese culture, jade has a particular energy … Continue reading

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The Seventh Dwarf

I was sitting in a consultation room having just taken a brief history from a new patient. New to us, anyway. Not new to him – he had been referred to our team with his fourth recurrence of a particularly … Continue reading

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Grief

If the computer screen were a piece of paper, this post would be full of words crossed out and half-written sentences. I’m not one to memorialise a person electronically. Something that has become clear to me recently is that when … Continue reading

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