Sharing today a special event I’m honored to be part of. On October 4th I will guide a workshop on mindfulness and closeness. Together we will explore how Concentration, Clarity & Equanimity (CC&E) skills help us better understand and nurture closeness in our lives.
In my contribution to the project – Between Disappearing and Becoming. The Transformation of Closeness – I present a personal process of asking, and at times finding, answers to the questions of what closeness means and how it changes.
Can we capture the moment when something ends? Does closeness ever truly end?
The places and objects I photograph – my mother’s handwritten recipe, embroidered napkins, my father’s bathrobe – are ways of connecting the “here and now” with the “then–once.” They hold the stage when I am not ready to say goodbye, when resistance outweighs acceptance. By weaving my own emotions into these mementos, closeness becomes tangible again.
The roses hidden in the collar of my father’s bathrobe, or napkins passed down from my great-grandmother to my mother, now entrusted to me, carry care, love, continuity. Handwriting and notes become bridges between past and present.
Through transforming objects and memories, I rediscover the warmth of relationships. I realize they are not lost – only changed.
Closeness, for me, is also sharing what is fleeting, personal, fragile. In community we understand more, and we see how much unites us in the ways we experience loss, longing, and connection.
I have come to understand that closeness is. It exists within us, even if it seems hidden beneath the layers of haste, duty, and time.
Also check out other Workshops in Krakow.
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