Category: Reflections

Notebook of a Departure from an Adopted Home

“For two years I’ve liked to think that my Bolivian ID is more than just a conversation starter, that it grounds my daily life in my relationship to a country I for a time called my home.”

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For Yan Pei-Ming, One Portrait Size Fits All

“As I sat on the bench in the center of the exhibition room, dwarfed by the mammoth panels of the tryptic, I considered my reaction.”

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Reflecting on Leaving Meaning

A review of the most recent Swans album.

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Lover of Mine

“I always loved her. I just didn’t always think highly enough of myself to justify this love.”

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Lessons From a Borrowed Home

Reflecting on the protests in Hong Kong.

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Yellow Afternoons

“There were always guava and mango, grapefruit and lychee. But, above all, there was always mother.”

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One-Minute Devotions

“I wondered what or who—a simple puzzle, a stakeless one, but one that, in context, made my expectation of strangeness a mystery lived.”

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On Playing School

A personal reflection on compensating student athletes.

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Solutions of the Spirit: Art Under Climate Threat

Advocating for art and creativity despite despair about the environment.

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Seeking Nature in Suburbia

“Like clockwork, the dull roars of airplane engines drown out the wind and occasional cricket chirps…”

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Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories

“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”

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Fireworks

“We were watching the same lights, inhaling the same air, and waiting for the same New Year to come, wishing the same things for our family and heading towards the same future.”

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