<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Challenges on Late Blooms</title><link>/tags/challenges/</link><description>Recent content in Challenges on Late Blooms</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/challenges/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Broken Pieces</title><link>/posts/broken-pieces/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/posts/broken-pieces/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;― Rumi&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://photos.smugmug.com/Lateblooms/n-ZkfX3Q/2015/Broken-pieces/i-KVBwB64/0/KDVWgmcCZJV8JtLC9pWWbbPg949gPbVQkHqKQF8Vk/D/Broken-Vase-HDR-ish-D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Broken Vase (HDR-ish)" loading="lazy" src="https://jeanjankisamaroo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Broken-Vase-HDR-ish-1024x587.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I accidentally knocked over one of my favorite vases which has served me well for many years.  As you can see in the above collage, it&amp;rsquo;s a very beautiful one.  You can also see that it was broken into many pieces and beyond repair.  I was disappointed but not devastated.  Whether that has to do with the aging process and the &amp;ldquo;letting go&amp;rdquo; stage of life or some other process at work is not quite clear to me.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>