A present from my dad

My dad taught me to always be prepared. I'm also the eldest daughter, so before leaving for a day trip I would routinely remind everyone to pack their charging cable, block, and power bank, and remind them to charge the power bank the night before. I still ended up having to share mine most of the time, so I just started bringing a second set (along with extra stuff like heat packs, water, umbrella etc. in case someone needed it). People often giggled at me for packing so much stuff (until it came in ha day, of course lol) but my dad would commend me. The day before my wedding and my last day living at home, my father gifted me his nice slim power bank that fit well in my clutch. Honestly one of the sweetest, most useful, and symbolic gifts I have ever recieved 🎀

Caricaturization

At first I was very self-critical of the fact what it is so easy for me to be inspired to make a character out of someone else, but not myself. Does this mean I see them as so two dimensional? Am I so reckless with others' identities but careful with my own?

Perhaps, it is so easy for my to make interpretive paintings and design caricatures of people in my life, as I see all my friends in their most brilliant and interesting form.

As for myself, the best thing I can possibly do is see myself exactly the way I am; impartial and unsaturated, I will not assign colours to a personality that I know has become so dull no matter how vibrant it once was.

Barred Owl

A dream come true

Jesus didn't need to manipulate people. He was kind to them, and created a safe environment for them, though.

He first fed the crowd, and then once their needs were met he taught them the truth.

I like feeding people, and I am comfortable teaching them. But I am always afraid of doing these at the same time because I don't want to create a feeling of obligation or a love that is transactional.

Truth

Not everyone who tries to manipulate your emotions is lying. But everyone who is lying needs to manipulate your emotions.

Wisdom and madness and folly

 "I applied my heart to knowing wisdom and to knowing madness and to knowing folly, and this too is a chasing after the wind.

For an abundance of wisdom brings an abundance of frustration, So that whoever increases knowledge increases pain."

- Ecclesiastes 1:17,18

The more you understand, is it not true the more frustrated you become with what we have done?

Doesn't it become all the more frustrating that we can't just do things that make sense,

More frustrating that we insist on continuing such harm?

And is it not because of love that you feel this way?

Do you not love this life?

Do you not love it's chaos that it descends to before forming together again into fundamental patterns that repeat over and over again?

Do you not love the spin of the earth,

The rise and fall of each day happening again and again?

The growth of every new generation of trees,

The pulse of this planet a

nd its seasons?

 It's so unimpressive when you ask someone their favourite cuisine and they pick their own culture's.