When I've felt hurt by another person, it's been natural for me to close off a bit. To become more guarded. Build up boundaries, and watch others carefully.
But living from this "fortified" position can not last long, nor would I want it to.
As soon as I could, I wanted to get out of San Jose. It’s not that I didn’t like my hometown — I just knew that there was much more to see in the world and I wanted to see it.
I first learned about Thich Nhat Hanh on a date last year of all places, when the man I was out with informed me Hanh was a Buddhist monk and peace activist whom Martin Luther King Jr. had nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
