My dear friend Ale gave me a ginseng plant for my birthday. When she gave it to me, she laughed because she knew I would be surprised. I don’t do well with plants. I support the life of my family and dog, but they also advocate for themselves. Less so with myself, and even less […]
Tag: Peace
Peace
For most of my life, I have been searching for peace, joy, and rest. Sometimes what we are searching for is within us all along. I have held tight to responsibilities for my whole life. Even as a young child, I felt responsible for the happiness of my family. Through family mythology and the position […]
The Other Side
Last week, I went to France. France is a strange home where I have never been a permanent resident. But it is my heart’s home. It is the place where I am able to most be myself and to be the self that I most want to be. It is the place where the rhythms […]
Grace and Peace Be With You
My son starts high school on Wednesday. My daughter starts kindergarten on Thursday. When my daughter was a newborn 5 years ago, and I was still on maternity leave, home with her in all of her infant glory, I thought about this time. I anticipated it would be hard, emotional, full of excitement and conflicted […]
Go with the Flow
I am exhausted. On the eve of my first ever Chinese language class, after a weekend of working with an amazing group of Asian American Scholar-Educator-Activists, after launching and getting incredible response for a study of Asian American educators, after running 5miles at 5:30 am and tucking in my children, before getting ready for the […]