I’m reading a book, A Tale For the Time Being, in which Nao, a Japanese girl who grew up in California and has now returned to Tokyo with her family, describes her first impression of going to the public bathhouse (sentō). Of this she says “At first I was like, No way! Forget it! I’m […]
Life according to Lauren
“…No matter what happens in life, you make up your mind how you’re going to live and what road you’re going to take in your life and that you must not allow other people to pull you off that trail, to bring you down to their way of life just because they need company…that you […]
We Are the World, We Are Family
I get notifications from AP mobile on my phone. Beginning Friday afternoon I started to get notifications about the terror attacks in Paris. I finished work, and went to dinner. The notifications continued. We discussed it at dinner. “Did you hear what is happening in Paris? Hundreds held hostage at a concert. Suicide bombers at […]
The Man In The Arena
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who […]
Hello! We matched! :)
Hello KChie! We matched! 🙂 So read my Tinder alert. It came from a man I had mistakenly swiped “right” on less than 24 hours prior. If you don’t know, Tinder is one of many (online) dating apps where profiles consists of your first name, age, photos of your choice, and pages you’ve “liked” on […]
Next time it is you!
It is 7/27/2015 which means it is finally over. My sister’s wedding that is. The planning began years ago, even before she met the man she was to wed back in 2009. It went into high gear when he proposed last year. I haven’t been involved except to get my orders to walk in her […]
The Fallacy of the Victory Narrative and Why I am a Feminist
I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. Different issues, same line of thoughts. Police brutality especially as pertains to the African American community. Gay marriage and the Indiana freedom to discriminate laws. Women’s rights and contraception. Earth rights and fracking and climate change, etc. My sister T’ni recently asked me if I were feminist […]
Love by Proust
“Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.” “People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.” […]
Standing Up – We are Entitled to be Included
A Tuliart Creation I have taken to calling cocoa-coloured dresses, shoes, lingerie and accessories nude in public (like in shops with friends and salespeople) while the tan, beige, sand, and cream ones are just that; tan, beige, sand and cream. If the traditionally nude hued person I am with squirms just a little, my point […]
Utopia
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. Saint Thomas More, Utopia, […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.