Ki Notes

There are moments in life when everything we’ve known about ourselves begins to shift. Sometimes the change is welcomed—like giving birth or becoming a grandmother. Other times it arrives uninvited—through loss, illness, menopause, or the end of a career. Regardless of how it comes, transformation demands something sacred from us: the willingness to grieve who we once were so that we can be reborn into who we are becoming.

"So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever see; if a restlessness like light and cloud shadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you. That life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall." Rainer Maria Rilke In late midlife, a quiet sorrow often weaves through our lives—one that lacks words or a formal farewell. It appears in the s