Tag: English
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Research for Nonfiction
I was reading The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It sucks you into the deep emotional and intellectual hallucinations distinct of a writer’s work and life. I clanged on helplessly for guidance on discipline, and for compassion to forgive my laziness. The character David Martin said something like, “To obtain adequate knowledge, one must read…
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Three Spiritual instructors of mankind: mastery of self, mastery of world, and mastery of the unknown. Dave Corrin
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Writing about San Francisco in Chinese
There are surprisingly few, few, few Taiwanese in San Francisco. A friend new to Bay Area asked: “Traditional Chinese is everywhere in SF. Who is it for?” Sadly we replied, it’s for the Cantonese. There are many Cantonese and Chinese living in San Francisco, but most Taiwanese move to the South Bay if they plan…
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Being an Alien
Have you ever find yourself diving into worlds totally different from your own, again and again? You dive in, wanting to be in something much bigger. You dive in, finding yourself in isolation after the exhilaration fades. You would go again. I grew up shy, unconfident, social-awkward, and self-conscious. Also, polite, conservative and Asian. Then…
Nature Spirituality 