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Link | ‘How are you coping in Vietnam, Dipika?’

‘How are you coping in Vietnam, Dipika?’

5 July | Half-month Cojournal

Write. Write every week. Write with a peer group of no more than 4. Discovering people wherever I go, I find myself always wanting to interconnect us. Maybe because it’s […]

This is why

‘Why don’t you teach English in Vietnam Dipika?’ ‘No.’ ‘…’ ‘…’ ‘I see.’ ‘Besides, I’d rather create opportunities for work for myself and people whose talents and skills and time […]

‘Farther than ever before’

That’s the name of this edition of S P A C E. I have been thinking about that theme of ‘awayness’ for, well, since March 2020 when it became impossible […]

1.25

I’m excited about something but it’s way too personal to put on this page. So, I’ll talk about it in the Cojournal. Which is the project that Kismuth invented in […]

The end of waiting

If good things come in threes, then today is the day that the third thing landed. If I am understanding this correctly, the border between Cambodia and Vietnam is now […]

Solitude

Tôi biết vì sao cậu đi đến nơi vắng vẻ này I know why you seek solitude

Making S P A C E this year starts with this

I’m ready. I’ll talk about this today in the Cojournal Project new space (that those of you who are wondering about it maybe missed the email with the Orientation Packet… […]

S P A C E | ‘Decolonization’

Probably the biggest thing that I’m working on this season is a set of zines on the topic, ‘Decolonization.’ With M, M, and A, in the cloud. For S P […]

Protected: Chúc mừng năm mới ✨✨

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Protected: The ‘nParent’

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Protected: ‘How did you go bankrupt? Gradually then suddenly.’

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Boring AF

Is it any surprise? No. It oughtn’t be. [deleted] ‘Boring AF’. It’s dismaying that Boss is using this kind of vocabulary. Then again, it makes me understand, too, […]

The Book of Feelings II

In the cloud (which I’ve been in since 2013, since I usually collaborate remotely with very creative people all around the world), I’m making stuff. Why the cloud? Why this […]

Protected: Dear Internet

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Protected: Homesickness

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S P A C E | Tokyo

Today was fun. In my mind, I got to take a tour of Japan again. I got to talk about it, go there in my old reminisces, and share—in Japanese. […]

Far

‘So you’re stuck?’ ‘Stuck is… well stuck isn’t quite the word…’ ‘You can’t leave?’ ‘I mean, I can. But it will cost $2,000 to deal with the hassle of it, […]

Reality & Trust, Chapter 1 | ‘Homesickness’

Today I’m going to continue some ongoing work to edit and collate the book, Reality & Trust, so as to be able to ready it for a proper release soon. […]

I have been reading this, today. https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-25433/15-essential-qualities-of-relationships-that-last.html This is the part about empathy: 5. There’s mutual empathy. Another key quality of a healthy relationship is empathy. Empathy means trying to understand […]

#110 Joy

What is joy? Checked out some internet stuff to learn more about this emotion. Joy, according to Merriam-Webster online, is the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by […]

#109 ‘Are your parents abusive?’

Here’s an article to help you find out. https://www.eqi.org/how_to_know_if_your_parents_are_abusing_you.htm This last comment from ‘Susan, Chicago’ is beautiful:

#108 ‘ It’s easy to feel hopeless when you can’t help someone who is unaware’

‘The good news is that although we can’t force insight on them, we can minimize their impact on us.’

Protected: #106 ‘Avoid recreating the toxicity’

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#105 Millenialove

From Xavier Young, at: https://loveisconfusing.com/2018/04/04/millennial-relationships-hard/ I liked this article. It’s about rushing around… millienially… when it comes to… relationships.

#104 Good anger

Found this. Very interesting. A great article for anyone dealing with difficult people who keep trying to erase your reality. Haha.

#102 How to choose your life partner

Here’s a starter prompt for today. From T. Urban‘s blog, ‘Wait but Why,’ this intriguing anti-mainstream essay on choosing your life partner… Quite a riot.

Protected: Papers | Start with Something Simple #2

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Protected: Politix

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Papers

The things in Papers, which began in May, are still happening. It’s getting good, now. This is what it is when you spend time on a thing: quality begins to […]

Papers, an invitation for just 4

‘How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress:’ N. Bohr, quantum physicist When DK’s A. Spaice popped around in real life […]

#86

I wrote about this week’s coming-up issue of S P A C E over at DK, and thought hard about what the idea of it is, why I wanted to […]

Protected: Good Night & Good Morning / Chúc Ngủ Ngon & Chào Buổi Sáng

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Protected: A letter home | ‘The view from Vietnam’

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A lovely sunny day / Một ngày nắng đẹp

I will try. To write the things. Straight up, without the abstraction that I usually put into these notes. Because it’s simplifying it: just telling a story, as it is, […]

Protected: #106 An argument for not-sharing

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