This is when I sense that something interesting has happened: our relationship has shifted. Now, an older woman is mentoring a younger one. Mrs Liang’s aged body still contains an agile mind that wants to keep abreast of current affairs; that has developed an economics-based philosophy of time passing; that has wisdom to impart and kindness to dispense, and yet very little opportunity to do so. In her simple act of compassion, she has been momentarily whole again.
