Ki Notes

For months, I couldn’t get a full night’s sleep. I tried everything—herbal teas, magnesium, prayer, meditation—but still found myself wide awake at 3 a.m. One morning, I realized the answer was simple: I needed a new bed. After finally ordering one, I found myself staring at a mountain of screws and an instruction booklet that promised a “one-hour assembly.” Five hours later, I had a bed—and a few unexpected lessons.

"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