identity | identity
Apr.16.2013
Vân, Cúc, Trúc, and Trang; Dũng, Dai, Khôi and Phát. In my mother tongue these names carry music, cadence, poetry. They evoke for the listener images of clouds, peonies, bamboo, jade; acts of bravery or wishes for prosperity. In English, alas, they lose all meaning as the inflexible American...
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Apr.15.2013
I’ll admit it: In addition to safe and wonderful travels, there was something else I was hoping for during my brother and his fiancée’s trip to Europe: that they’d fall in love with one of the cities we were visiting, and decide to stay.
One of the hardest things about living abroad is...
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Feb.28.2013
February 28
Pucker Up
The gifts I never expected, never knew I needed, never imagined wanting, arrive wrapped in fretful apprehension more often than not. “Who knew?” I ask myself standing swathed in a skin I never realized I owned. My identity...
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Feb.12.2013
What makes Belgium’s capital boast of a little boy urinating? The last thing you might want is a spray of piss on your face as you pose before what is considered an iconic structure in Brussels. Is it fun? Is it funny? Does it have to be?
I read about the Manneken Pis a while ago. Standing two-...
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Jan.31.2013
Bird of Paradise Lost Book tour - - with dates and specific hours and more events to be filled in ...by Andrew Lam on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 11:11am · PublicFriendsFriends except AcquaintancesOnly MeCustomClose FriendsLowell HighSee all lists...New America...
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Jan.07.2013
How close to madness can you get and not slip off the edge? All my life I wondered if I could go crazy, if the ways my imagination leaped, the fact that I loved booked more than reality, if my need to be the leader, the director, and my equally strong need for silence and contemplation would one...
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Nov.29.2012
The driver’s license is a document with multiple uses. On the road, it gives its holder the right to drive certain vehicles. Very often, it also serves as an identity document, particularly in countries that do not have a national identity card program.
This is just one more reason why it has to...
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Nov.27.2012
Not getting hired, promoted, asked to speak, invited to participate? Not getting read, funded, selected, noticed? You’re not being recognized.
Here’s how you can change that. Overcome professional obscurity with digital literacy.
Build your online presence with intention. Marry who you...
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Sep.28.2012
Turn
inside out
this Body of Self-Evidence
to prove
the existence of your Mind.
No life
hangs
inside the deep-freeze
of this meat locker.
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Sep.13.2012
All life distinguishes “inside” from “outside,” or “self” from “nonself.” (I call this SkinThink). This is the fundamental duality of existence. This dichotomy, this distinction, this bias, this sapience is the software of living. Life (in order to begin, in order to...
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