Last days of summer

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – EE Cummings

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Love this aesthetic

“I don’t strive for perfection in line and form in my work, because for me the balance I’m trying to achieve can’t be represented that way. The incompleteness and imperfection of my work is part of the story. Just as the absence of something in our lives can stir powerful feelings and show us the [...]

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Teaching in Viet Nam

Five years ago I spent four months in Viet Nam in an education abroad program. Only now, five years later, certain experiences begin to leave an impression on me. But this has always been my modus operandi. I see life through the eyes of nostalgia. At the time what stood out to me were my [...]

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The world hates you when you’re sad

The world hates you when you’re sad. Everyone is disappointed in you because you’re such a downer, such a joykill, such a drag. You play the victim all the time when there’s no one to blame. You can’t take a joke because you’re so damn sensitive. You’re so boring, you never go out. You’ve changed, [...]

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Depression

Depression sneaks up like a receding tide, every successive wave draws back further and further, leaving barren the rocky crevices, once home to colorful, miniature life.
A rude driver on the road, a cold brush on the shoulder of a passerby, a joke at my expense and I am tumbling into the abyss, holding back senseless [...]

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