Moments: From the Act of Being Human

Taina offers a fresh voice to the feelings and thoughts that are part of our human experiential learning journey. The living emotions that weave through her prose trigger memories of our own journeys, which may well be accompanied by the emergence of deep feelings hidden away for a time and thought lost. But they are not lost. They are still there, only now perceived from a distance, which has been filled with other life lessons such that even experiences then-perceived as “negative” contribute to feelings of being alive, being human. Each of us is incredibly unique, one of a kind, which means that the specificity of what it means to be human—the capacities and capabilities, the potential and possibilities, the needs and wants, the dreams and desires—are entangled with the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual self. Yet we are all gifted with emotions and feelings, those public expressions of response and those more private mental experiences, both of which are a building block of consciousness and comprise a guidance system for survival and the pain and pleasure portals of personality. Taina weaves life’s emotions and feelings—the visible and invisible—into a journey of growth and expansion. Her delicious grasp of language enables the reader to flow with the emotional waves of the moment in an ocean of learning.