Every Hindu temple has a bell. It’s almost always the first thing you encounter - a small ritual before the rituals begin. A rope, a ring, a sound. For years, I did it without thinking. A polite, almost mechanical motion before stepping into the main hall. But over time, that bell has come to … [Read more...]
Canada Moves Quietly, but It Does Move
There’s something uniquely frustrating about seeing what’s coming and watching everyone else miss it - not because you’re smarter, but because you’re paying attention to things they’re not. For the past six months, I’ve been telling anyone who would listen that the Liberals weren’t as done as … [Read more...]
Why Not Stay Together? On Family, Aging, and Choosing Closeness
I get this question more often than I’d like to admit - usually asked with a polite smile and a pause that says more than words ever could: “Your parents live with you? And your sister?” It’s not said outright, but it’s there - in the tilt of the head, the slow blink, the silence that follows as … [Read more...]
The Beautiful Lie of Control (And the Freedom of Letting Go)
We spend a good part of our lives trying to avoid fear. We plan, we prepare, we hustle, we build, we chase. We try to stay ahead of it. Outsmart it. Outrun it. But fear isn’t something outside of us - it’s something we’ve built inside. Brick by brick. And most of those bricks are stories we’ve … [Read more...]
We Let It Happen: A Hard Look at the Quiet Choices That Reshaped Canada
We like to believe change happened to us. That someone else is to blame for what (we believe) Canada has become. But the truth is harder - and far more important. Whatever that change is, we let it happen. Not through grand decisions, but through a thousand quiet choices, silences, and … [Read more...]