Tag: identity
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The Big City Buzz: A Lesson in Self-Discovery
Two weeks ago, I was defrosting by the sea. Today, I’m fueling up on the vibrant energy of the city. 🏙️✨
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Ain’t No Box Big Enough
Let’s talk about boxes and the ones we like, no almost need, to put people into. First, let’s establish that we all do this. I do it. You do it. Everyone we know does it. If anyone, that includes you or me, denies that it is done, then we (they, you, I) are lying to…
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Doing and Being – Me
Last week’s poem was a few days/weeks in the making. I have been feeling a desire to return to writing poetry as sometimes prose is too wordy and lacks an elegance that poetry has in expressing thoughts or emotions. It has been a while since I have used it as a way of expressing myself,…
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“Home”
Yesterday, I participated in an interview for someone doing research on the adoptee diaspora and was struck by a few thoughts stimulated by her questions. One of them is around my concept of ‘home’, which is a recurring question in my mind. Coincidentally, or not, I had just been talking to my brother for an…
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Defined by our birthplace or our citizenship?
When I was young, I used to follow the North 🇰🇵 and South Korea 🇰🇷unification news quite diligently. In fact, I would cut out newspaper clippings 📰 reporting on their relationship and the ongoing hope of the Korean people that they would become one nation again. One time, my dad asked me what interested me…
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OSH the Writer
In 2016, I decided to quit my job because I was at a breaking point and I was under the naive impression that being newly married meant that my husband would take care of me. Without going into too much detail, that delusion was more of a nightmare of grandeur. Thankfully, my stubborn character did…
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Where Are You From?
I’ve started following another blog by adoptees – Land of Gazillion Adoptees. It is seemingly more organized and purposeful site than most of the others that I’ve come across. Today, I read one of their recent postings about the question people ask – “Where Are You From?”. I know that I’ve written a poem somewhere…
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Third Culture Asian
I am trying to continue to catch up on posts in my ‘draft’ box that I set aside to write on later while mixing in posts about my current life adventures. So, forgive me if I seem a little more random than usual. A while ago, I was catching up on the blogs/websites that I…
