Category: Story Telling

How time flies. Who knew that I’d be graduating high school in Silicon Valley? I wonder if other 17 and 18-year-olds feel this unevenness. Something doesn’t seem quite right. Everything is slightly crooked in my life, and all I can do is fix it in my hands.

Shrinking woman, she chose to shrink in a world where we have everything we ever needed. Society told her that her small petiteness gave her beauty. in her next life. Reincarnate into a beautiful, strong tree, into a forest, into the world. She’ll live again. Celebrate her gluttony.

Freestyle loaned me a camera. Recently, I’ve started taking pictures of myself. I’ve never loved the way I look; unruly hair and acne have always made me feel I haven’t washed my hair enough, standing next to people with straight shiny hair.

Canon EOS Rebel T6i 29m f/4 1/50 sec ISO 400 EXP 0 no flash, compulsory I can imagine this screen being shown before we introduce our main character, a little Buddhist boy living in a temple with monks.

Between foreseeing and averting changeLies all the mastery of elementsWhich clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter.Time in the hand is not control of time,Nor shattered fragments of an instrumentA proof against the wind; the wind will rise,We can only close the shutters. -Adrienne Rich

It’s 37 degrees outside, and I wonder if the trees and plants will stay alive. Big trees like Pine trees will maintain their lush green leaves, but some, like persimmon, can’t keep them. Some people can remain in good spirits during the winter, but I struggle, like my persimmon tree.…

Blue, red, and yellow is distinct, even in black and white. Culturally, Buddhism uses these specific colors to describe a state of mind, buddha, a body part, a part of a mantra, or a natural element. Blue is associated with purity and healing. Red symbolizes achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune, and…