November 2011
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Day 5: Learning by Doing
Four projects stand out in my mind from my secondary school years. Two of them, a story I wrote and bound into a book in Elementary School and my first publicly-performed music composition which I wrote in High School, remain precious to me despite all the juvenile mistakes they contain. Two others, a Halloween diorama from fourth grade and a speech I submitted for consideration for my...
Day 5: My 37th Halloween and 3rd Major Shift
(Chalk pastel drawing by my daughter, S)
Exactly 36 years ago my parents, my two younger brothers and I landed at JFK Airport in New York City having arrived from Seoul, Korea. It was Halloween, my youngest brother was the same age that my daughters are now and I was a young teenager. When we arrived at the airport, my brothers and I felt overwhelmed by the Halloween decorations everywhere and I...
October 2011
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Day 4: What do you know?
Yesterday was homework-free so today was the day to pay the piper. It wasn’t a huge deal, but Jung and I are trying to help our daughters organize their homework, so we all sat down to look at what was due in the coming week and asked S&J to plan out when they were going to work on which assignment, and to write it into the charts we created. As parents, we are trying to find the right...
Day 4: Artist’s Way: Making It Up As We Go
To be honest, the way Charles and I are starting our new venture isn’t exactly how we first envisioned it. It is far more “muchier” than either of us ever imagined when we first embraced the uncertainties and decided to jump into the unknown. I often heard others talk about the magic of taking that first step towards a commitment. For instance, one of my virtual mentors, Joseph Campbell, an...
Day 3: Measure for Measure
That’s it. I quit.
Hah! I don’t quit that easily, but we really hit the ground running the day after Jung left Microsoft, and that was after many, many late nights both preparing the internet infrastructure for us to begin with, as well as helping Jung collect her personal files from work. I felt exhausted last night, and definitely still feel it today. On top of that, we went for a...
Day 3: “The antidote to exhaustion is not rest but...
Was it foolish for me to have no break between the last day of my corporate employment and my new venture? I could have taken some time off between October 26th and the first day of our blog experiment project, but I didn’t. I plunged right into it, head first, knowing Charles was with me as my “laboratory partner” to start this experiment together.
Last night I went to bed before 11:00pm,...
Day 2: There's nothing to worry about, but worry...
Those of you who read yesterday’s post know that I set the intention to ask myself why I was doing things. Today’s walk was a perfect object lesson in why that’s important.
Having been warned that it might rain later today (and it did indeed pour in the afternoon), we decided to go for our walk directly after dropping the kids off at school this morning. Jung thought it would be...
Day 2: One Baby Step At A Time
Sitting with a cup of tea after our morning walk, I’m looking out the window of our guest-room-turned-into-my-meditation-room. I recall that J had a nightmare last night. I heard her come into our bedroom and the next thing I knew she was standing next to my side of the bed telling me she had a terrible nightmare and that she didn’t want to go back to her room. I took her into our bed. The bed is...
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Day 1: Academic Epidemic: What's your motivation?
What a blessing today was! If you live in the Seattle area, you know that today’s weather was amazingly uncharacteristic for this time of year. The clear blue sky and turning leaves called us out to go for a walk together after our late lunch. The air was just cool enough so it was comfortable wearing a jacket while climbing some of the very steep hills around our home. It reminded me of...
Day 1: Peace, Gratitude and Joy
When Charles woke me up this morning, I asked him what time it was. He said, “7:37!” I smiled. Both numbers, “7” and “3,” are lucky numbers, aren’t they? Also, for the last few months, I’ve experienced a consistent coincidence: when I’d look at the clock, I’d see the time show up in some manner of symmetrical pattern. For instance, 11:11, 10:01, 3:33, 9:09, 5:35, etc. I’ve wondered whether...
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