A Glimmer of Light Toward the Sun

Other people's childhoods were sweetened with candy. Hers was nothing but hardship.

Her parents' estrangement was the first lesson she ever learned.

As she grew up, the ebb and flow of love let her touch the warmth of the human world, again and again, in the space between loving and being loved.

She weathered desolation and lived through lively days,

seeing the chill in people's hearts as well as the kindness in the world.

It was only in middle age that she finally understood:

Life favors no one,

but she still had to live passionately, clearly, and independently.

This is the story of Shisi,

and of every woman who keeps moving toward the sun through wind and rain.