Category Archives: How
156 – recent frustrations, expressed as passive-aggressively as possible
I show people I like that I love them, and I show people I love that I fear them.
150 – Travels and Journeys?
So I’m typing up the first few entries from the Philippines, and I realize that the first few days I also wrote so much about things that had happened in Seattle before I had left. And even well into the … Continue reading
Filed under Questions
149 – And I’m back!
This street is dimmer with all the students on holiday. It’s an eerie quiet in my house, where I’m not even sure if I’m allowed to be. I can’t decide if I should put a record on or dwell in … Continue reading
Filed under Homeness, Short, Stream of Consciousness
147 – Examined in a new light
Justin saw this first: Examined in a new light Despite the commitment from the weaker to the healthier we have failed to calm the panic The thinking goes what also rose was more grandiose than practical Anxious, You bear much … Continue reading
Filed under "Poetry", Reasons/Ways I Believe in God, Religion, Scripture, Spirituality
145 – many airplane rides ago
201003231815 A friend told me once about some drug that’s meant to mimic the neurological processes of dying. You feel like you’re dying. You see a bright light and reach out to it and all of that. I wondered if … Continue reading
143 – And here I am, waiting for something to break my heart
On The Yucatán, I The northern boys fell at a palm tree, white sand concrete shoe box, where it was all foaming at the mouth and poison pools. I would’ve rather drowned in the cave bound to your belly and … Continue reading
142 – Table Breakers
Tablebreakers It takes four legs to crawl back to hold hands, say a prayer, wipe our mouths, cut the gristle off your elephant bones and carry your body all the way home
Filed under "Poetry"
141 – Greetings from Planet Earth
Hello. I write to you like a letter from a close friend far away in time and location, because that’s what I’ve been. I write to you like a letter handwritten from top to bottom with penmanship that weakens one … Continue reading
Filed under Straight Documenting
140 – After this, I almost got hit by a car
201009011059 I had kind of a curious interaction with my grocer this morning. He seemed to give me a look when I passed him by on the early part of my trip, and when I went to check out he … Continue reading
137 – First, superficial reflections before the convention
I’m at the Asian American Journalists Association’s national convention. Wrote these earlier, one on a plane, one the first night. 201008041010 (or something) I am getting to be a bitter adult. I write this now on a plane, where the … Continue reading
Filed under Straight Documenting
136 – I love my job. I just hope it loves me back.
Sometimes I write about “deep” things. Sometimes I write about “spiritual” things. Sometimes I write about “poetic” things. But I don’t write enough about my day-to-day life and what that looks like on a very clear level. I flip through … Continue reading
Filed under Happy, Straight Documenting
133 – oh, yes!
More entries that aren’t written well but mean well. My day ends with a big, big moon and a fistful of blueberries. It is the clasp at the end of eight hours of music and art and photo-taking and wandering … Continue reading
Filed under Beautiful Things, Stream of Consciousness
132 – Switch
Today I ran into about five friends/my editor by happenstance (on four separate occasions), and then about as many folks from Campus Ministry, mostly away from campus. Last night I had written some things about dissatisfaction and social frustration and … Continue reading
Filed under Happy, Messy, Passion, Rambling, Straight Documenting, Stream of Consciousness
131 – Collected Musings on the Final Finals Week of Sophomore Year
It’s bad news when you get halfway through a paper and realize you don’t know what your thesis is. It’s bad news when you literally run to buy a coffee just before the shop closes…and then buy another coffee just … Continue reading
130 – Things I would rather be doing than writing this paper:
Having a picnic Eating chocolate cake in the sunshine with friends with puppies Having lengthy conversations in the sunshine with strangers with friends with puppies Scouring the Capitol Hill Community Garage Sale for friends for puppies Reading for pleasure Writing … Continue reading
128 – I should not listen to bands from Denver again.
At least not on days like this.
Filed under Beautiful Things, Lists, Song References
