floored

dear friends,
i’m discovering that california seems to have a shortage of postcards… i have been looking into bookstores, library bookstores, groceries, the mall, gas station shops, etc., but so far, i’ve only found san diego postcards in starbucks, and they’re not even nice. but if worse comes to worst, i guess i’ll get those [...]

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redeeming the days

i tend to view my depression as a sickness that comes and goes– much like the flu. it’s not always about something that’s emotional or connected to something that happened to me. i haven’t been depressed for nearly six months, i think, then it hit me again and lasted for more than a few days.
i [...]

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origins

“how do you guys know each other?”
i’ve been hearing this question a lot lately, as my world gets smaller and my friends from various groups around the city and from all over the world start hanging out or having dinner together. it’s always a pleasant feeling to actually take a moment to think about how [...]

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of the sacred and the mundane

“Since the things that lie in our immediate path have been ordered by God, who shall say that one kind of work is more important and sacred than another?” - J.O. Fraser
“You know, I never get to talk as much when I’m with you,” I said.
Without missing a beat, Ate Cha replied, “That’s because I’m [...]

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Her name is Mic

for the past couple of weeks, on top of all the stuff i have to write, i’ve been spending a couple of hours a day “teaching” English to this 12 year old Thai girl. My only other experience in teaching English as a second language is when i spent five hours helping out a Japanese [...]

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