May 19Member-onlyReentering a Cosmic Dance: Learnings from Steiner and Kindred SpiritsA Reflection Paper for PARP 6762 Steiner and Jung and My Psycho-Spiritual Journey Original title: Steiner and Kindred Spirits and My Psycho-Spiritual Journey for PARP 6762–01 Steiner and Jung, taught by Robert McDermott and Sean Kelly for Department of Philosophy, Consciousness, Cosmology, at California Institute of Integral Studies. …Steiner14 min read
Jan 5, 2021Member-onlyArt of non-doing and all-that-within-me — reflections on three months in HawaiiAs I finally signed a lease on a dream house in Maui, replenished my need for connection with a few intimate conversations, and completed errands and shopping for starting a new year, new school semester, and new community house, today I sat in the balcony and let out my breath…Life Lessons6 min read
Dec 18, 2020Cycles of Renewal: A Reflection on Inter-connectedness and My Interpersonal HistoryPrelude That night, I broke down in my bedroom crying. It might have been several months after I arrived at my host parents’ house in Ohio. No friends I could connect with, no freedom to explore around without a car, being accused of “eating too much” or speaking Chinese at…Intergenerational Trauma13 min read
May 26, 2020What a fun year already, 2020At the end of 2019, I thought 2020 was going to become one of the most epic and fruitful years of my life. I had spent two and a half years working and saving money in my software engineering job, one year doing life coaching and side hustling to figure…Personal Development10 min read
Jul 12, 2019Member-onlyI host Sad Parties for people to be sad togetherA. “Now I open the space up for something I call open mic without a mic and offer you the most precious gift — our attention. You can jump inside the circle and do anything you want for around 5 minutes. You can straight up cry, tell a story, sing a…Self Improvement7 min read
Jan 19, 2019“Where’s Justin, and the Chinese girl?”A story about New Year’s Eve in Beijing, potentially written for shits and giggles of my grandchild — Our second night in Beijing was New Year’s Eve. Not invited to any cool gatherings, we bought tickets of a considerable fee to the fanciest event we could find online — a party hosted by Atmosphere Bar, located in the 80th floor in the tallest building in Beijing called China…Short Story5 min read
Nov 23, 2018Reflections on a year-long growthWARNING: still really self-absorbed Yesterday at my birthday party people started sharing embarrassing moments of me and somehow multiple friends remembered me as someone who “told her love stories for hours with great passion and details” and “declared Love as her religion as we watched the Man burn”. …Life Lessons7 min read
Sep 6, 2018What I got out of my first Burning ManWARNING: EXTREMELY DRAMATIC, VALUELESS AND SELF-ABSORBED, SOUNDS SUPER FAKE Burning Man is an annual week-long event in a temporary city in Nevada desert “devoted to art, community & 10 guiding principles including ‘radical self-expression’”. I have heard of it long since I attempted to attend for the first time this…Burning Man11 min read
