In deep contrast to usual new year's eve festivities, last year (because we've officially transitioned to 2021) was the first time I never even came close to considering writing a post to celebrate the year that was. And what for? With countless natural disasters, a piling death toll, an increasingly authoritarian regime, a global pandemic,… Continue reading Happy to be here
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Of dreams, culminations, and new beginnings
The start of the decade bore witness to bright-eyed Joy in her senior year of high school -- fiery, argumentative, passionate, and certain she was going to be a lawyer. In career day, that's what she told everyone she would be -- voice of the voiceless, defender of the oppressed. The end of… Continue reading Of dreams, culminations, and new beginnings
Of wishes
We were sitting on the sidewalks last night, just talking. Cigarette sticks turned cigarette butts left unnoticed, practically touching — burning — skin; frozen bottles of beer turned lukewarm; clock hands turning, now it is 11:14 PM, now it is 11:53 PM, now it is 12:32 AM, now it is 12:41. We leaned back and… Continue reading Of wishes
Cheers to the Old, Cheers still to the New
I. You have bad years. You have good years. And you have years that are positively out of this world, so much so that you feel writing about it won't give it justice, no matter how hard you try. But then again, I've always been a stubborn kid. So I will. Try, I mean. At… Continue reading Cheers to the Old, Cheers still to the New
Of perpetual finds 