childrencryingand menshouting.Itwaslikeaninvisibleclaw hadgrabbed myhearttightly,makingit unabletobeat. Thatgloriousdaysetoffmypassionandinterest inviolin—Igrabbedmineandneverletitgo.Before thememoriesfaded,Istaredatmyinstrument.Withouthesitating,Ipickeditup,rosined(用松香擦)the bow,andbegantoplay.Peacefi...
and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. ...
He made notes on a form as I answered questions about why I was there, where I was going, with whom, where I was staying, how much cash I had, where I had been on my trip and what had I done there, what I was bringing with me, whether I had an iPhone or a laptop. He look...
yet we aren’t demonstrating it. Write what you believe in stone.” They all looked at me like I was crazy, but throughout the day their prayers of faith appeared on the rock. Of course, the rock has no power…it is a rock
The Sega CD was a way for me to play PC-style games, because we couldn’t afford one. We didn’t get a PC forever. I had the 32X, too; the shittiest of the shitty. The only game I ever had was Doom. And did you know that it wasn’t even the full version? It was...
Actually, I am not a big fan of instruments. I enjoy listening to music but performing instruments is not my strong point. I did learn to play the piano for a couple of months when I was little, but I ended up quitting. I think this whole hobby thing requires music talent, which I...
I was planning to blog on Sunday, which was ME Awareness Day, but instead because I have ME I slept through it instead. To be honest I’m not entirely sure I would have said anyway – I’ve already said what it’s like to live with Severe ME, and that we need more physiological ...
The date of the inscription was significant because it precisely marked the time that Bishop Juan B. Lamy was arriving in Santa Fe as the new Vicar Apostolic of New Mexico, now for three years part of the United States. Within the westward expansion of the United States, S.W. Kearny ...
released and allowed a journey that becomes part of somewhere else, someplace else… because even in the release it then becomes the worst possible act of another, an act that the other, well there is no other, just me- an act that I never thought nor felt nor could have imagined was ...
seeing a truck of armed militants who were “out hunting FEMA,” though law enforcement said the suspect acted alone. The man—carrying a handgun and rifle at the time of his arrest—was chargedwith “going armed to the terror of the public” and released later that day on $10,000 bail...