crack that coconut: on pain, compassion and coconut water – by Molly Lannon Kenny

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions, which are necessary to our moral condition. ~ Samuel Johnson These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. ~ Rumi Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach     February was the first month in over ten years that I did…