#facingdeath

Audrey Chin

Jun 29, 20133 min read

Caught in the rain!

Be careful what you wish for. Nothing is a perfect circle. That’s life. How we wished for rain the week before! A deluge of blessed...

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Audrey Chin

May 30, 20134 min read

Why pray for the dying?

Have I prayed in vain? Wai’s funeral was yesterday, Ish’s more than a year ago now. Kwan is in a deep coma. There’s very little chance...

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Audrey Chin

Mar 1, 20133 min read

The Pope is gone, my mother-in-law is dead, but life goes on…

This week Pope Benedict 16th steps down, the first papal resignation in nearly 600 years. At the University of Tubingen in Germany, the...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 4, 20126 min read

Elegy – July 4th in Alaska

We went to Alaska for the summer. It’s beautiful country. For someone from Singapore, too big to grasp. We had time, so much time. And...

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Audrey Chin

Nov 12, 20111 min read

Resistance

I had a nightmare about pacmen shooting at me; they were shouting – Resistance is futile! resistance is futile. Clearly the product of...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 7, 20111 min read

The Curious Arts of Animals

It’s taken me almost a lifetime to learn to sit and be with myself, to be aware of my now and to let go. Animals, they do it naturally...

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Audrey Chin

Aug 7, 20116 min read

Looking Death in the Face

With each birthday, death becomes more forward. Good face days become fewer and farther apart. Death begins to make her presence felt...

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