A rose from my friend's garden at the beach. The smell of Damascus; jasmine, sometimes it is enough to calm her seas, and sometimes it's not.

Theory of Silence©

“Don’t talk unless you can improve on the silence,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote. In time, I figured it out, no Otto Kernberg, nor Jacques Lacan, am I. When someone wants to tell you about themselves, listen and watch, with care. Silence can be good, too. It avoids triggering the shame. Remember, you’re there to make them like themselves, not diagnose them; …