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A friend has written:
Utterly exhausted from catching up on emails from people in distress. There's so much suffering in this world. It helped to re-read Zen master Dogen from Chapter 4:
"The bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone makes it possible for plum blossoms to send forth their fragrance all over the universe."
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