It’s been a bit over a month since I’ve written an entry on this blog. While that, in and of itself, may not seem particularly significant (I’ve gone longer without writing here and I’ve been writing in other ways and working on other projects), I can feel the difference in my heart and mind. This […]
Tag: Reflection
Tea, Time & Carrying On
Two weeks ago, at this time, I was sleeping after a day spent traveling to my father’s ancestral village to add my generation’s names to our family genealogy book. When I awoke after this sleep, I would travel to a different historic village, one preserved for tourists as well as cultural heritage where I would […]
The Ties that Bind Across Diaspora
It is nearly the end of the second half of my 3-week trip in East Asia. It has been the longest I’ve been out of the United States in over 20 years. It has been a time that has been impactful in ways that I haven’t been able to fully articulate. But, perhaps the articulation […]
Learning and Letting Go
I have started and restarted this blog post multiple times, trying to find the “best” way to share what I’ve been learning over the last 11 days. And, ironically, what I realized, is that this starting, stepping away, restarting, starting fresh, is representative of what I’ve been learning. There isn’t necessarily always (or ever) a […]
Homeplace
“Looking back as an adult woman, I think of the effort it must have taken her to transcend her own tiredness (and who know what assaults or wounds to her spirit had to be put aside so that she could give something to her own).” — bell hooks, “Homeplace (a site of resistance)” My time […]
Arriving
I arrived in Taipei last night, and got to my hotel just after midnight. Before I lost internet, an hour into my flight, I began keeping track of moments that I’ve felt my mom’s presence during this journey. I’ll keep sharing mom sightings on this blog. Here are the first few: I’ve had photos of […]
Embracing My Humanity
It is a tender time, Friends. And I am realizing that tender times are the best times to grow, if we can really connect with what (and who) we need to, if we can listen to our internal wisdom, and trust our communities who sometimes see us before we see ourselves. Yesterday was a weird […]
What are you working on?
I am in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of the Cultivating New Voices Among Scholars of Color Spring 2025 Institute, serving as a mentor for a dear friend and junior scholar. In reviewing the agenda, my eyes settled upon the question: What are you working on? Hmmm, what am I working on? This morning, on a walk […]
Pacing Myself
For roughly 5 years between 2015-2020, I ran half marathons. Prior to that, I had run cross-country and track in high school but subsequently took a twenty-year running hiatus. When I took running back up, I remember realizing two important things: 1) I was not my younger self in many ways, and I personally would […]
Spring Thoughts
Today, on my walk to my daughter’s school and subsequent bus ride into campus, I was reminded how suddenly spring can appear. We noted the budding blossoms and daffodils on our way. The sky is blue. The sun is out. The mountain is out. Birds are chirping outside my open window as I write this […]