Encounters and Expressions

Nov 23

Memo to a Martian:

One day every year, we try to celebrate what we already have. This day is a time to wake up and appreciate what we see a little bit more than usual. This day is a celebration of the wonderful adventure of life.

We try to come together as a family, as a community, as a society, in companionship and fellowship. We try to see others as people whose wants, dreams and goals are not so different from our own.

For us, it is a time to remember how to be thankful, how to be resilient and how to face every day with optimism and hope.

(via thedailyfeed)

Nov 17

Time-lapsed aurora borealis … viewed from the International Space Station. All right. That’s pretty cool

Oct 31

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Oct 29

Vintage photo bomb. Spartanburg, SC. ~1910s

Lykke Li + Bon Iver performing Dance Dance Dance to a crowd of one in LA. It is some nice music.

Oct 26

Occupy Wall Street as (sort of) seen by Fox News, NYT and the Huffington Post. (via Mediaite)

Oct 23

latimes:

Personal stories warm up Seoul’s subway rides: In South Korea, placards on trains offer short tales of love, loss and coping with everyday life for harried commuters. “The storytelling program began last year as an antidote to the drudgery of Seoul’s daily commute in packed subway cars that hurtle along, funeral-home silent, on one of the planet’s most heavily used rapid transit systems,” John M. Glionna writes.

Some of the stories:

A man tells of his boyhood shame at learning from a friend that the sneakers his mother gave him were the castoffs of another child. A woman realizes her selfishness after years of complaining how she had to care for an Alzheimer’s-ridden mother-in-law — guided by her own son’s devotion to his ailing grandmother.

Photo: A Seoul subway rider looks up at a placard bearing one of the personal stories submitted by everyday commuters. Credit: Matt Douma / For The Times

This seems like a great antidote to the advertisements on the subways. I remember reading them for Korean language practice, but it would have been a lot more fun to read stories submitted by everyday people. Public use of public space. Way to go, Seoul.

It is autumn now, and the leaves are dropping from the trees, revealing ringtailed rascals.

Oct 19

Ah, Gawd, J-School

One thing is for sure were in for quite a ride and an impeccable race that’s for sure.

Encounters and Expressions

The other life of a full-time journalist

Memo to a Martian:

Ah, Gawd, J-School