PERSONAL STORIES

 

Dr. Christiane Wolf – Author and Mentor MMTCP

“Going through the loss of a loved one, be it through an accident, a sudden health decline or be it through a long disease, is always devastating.
Support programs for relatives for example of cancer or dementia patients or to get through the immediacy of loss are – thank goodness- more readily available these days.
But what about support years after the death? We are assuming that life should go back to normal after a year or two. But is this the case? Margreeth’s program offers something for this big gap. Spurred by her own experience of loosing her husband to cancer over many years while being deeply steeped in mindfulness and compassion practice for many decades already, she created this beautiful, deep and transformative program. In my view she is giving a gift to all of us and makes this world a more humane, loving and connected place.”

Dr. Christiane Wolf-
Author and Mentor MMTCP

A poem written for me by URANA
We are eachothers teachers: A poem

After her fires, too strong to tame, burnt the land around her
With all its debris, treasures, and spaces in betweens
Her wind came and blew away the rest, ashes and all
And she stood in her nothingness waiting for the great waters to emerge

Came, they did, the great waters
Earth called you to its ocean, invited you to hear it and walk by it everyday
Destiny gave you ample grief, to let your inner waters flow as endless tears
Those who need you, come to you in their thirst, seeking your words of wisdom

Even the way you speak sounds like a gentle flowing river
And the way you walk resembles quiet tide of the ocean
You sprinkle fresh ideas like dews from a morning flower, awoken to newness
And you listen like a deep well where fresh water is waiting to be discovered

They say that water has power to change lands
Break dams, mold canyons and create new paths
Sometimes water changes trajectories ever so slowly and gently, just by one degree
And it makes all the difference to the lands downstream, that would have otherwise cracked in
its dryness

Woman of water, gentle teacher, wise guide
Being in your presence just for a few days stirred my inner waters
I feel the spring rising, swirling, and gurgling
Babbling, bursting brooks ready to wet cracked and neglected places inside me

Urana Batjargal
Economist World Bank Washington DC