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Grappling With the Language of Love
Read more: Grappling With the Language of LoveWe often hear about how hard it is to be articulate in a foreign language, but when I began to study Arabic, what took me a long time to learn was not how to speak but how to listen. Looking back, I see that my inability to listen well cost me my first love. The man…
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Thought #2: Workaholic
Read more: Thought #2: WorkaholicTap, tap tap. Clatter, clatter, clatter. I hear them fervently type away. They stop. They take a deep breath. They read out loud and/or think aloud what they are typing. They resume. I’ve become so accustomed to the pattern of sounds, I tune it out easily. This process repeats and recycles itself for the entire…
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Why aren’t there more male muses?
Read more: Why aren’t there more male muses?I dabble in the arts and I look for inspiration in everything. Well, almost everything. I’ve been painting since I was thirteen, and my tendency has been to draw women; women in nature, portraits of women, and women in different settings of life. Lately, I’ve wanted to explore the other side of the coin and draw men. So I’ve…
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Thought #1: Communicating Feelings
Read more: Thought #1: Communicating FeelingsGrowing up in a typical Asian family where feelings, emotions, and affections are rarely expressed and everything is bottled up, had a negative effect on me. Most of the time, you know the affections are there, but you never get to experience them fully nor hear them described to you in words (and words are…