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Convenience Story Woman: A Review
Historically, I’ve had a hard time reading most fiction, but this last little while I’ve been getting really into Japanese literature. I’m not sure what it is about it: the themes, the style of writing, the other-worldliness of the stories—who can say? Perhaps it’s the fact that so many of the ones I have read…
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Familiar stranger
It’s a captivating experience to find yourself once again in a place you used to call home. It may look exactly the same, leaving you with the illusion that it’s only you who’ve changed. Or it may look different, and you’ll find something completely different, the ghost of an old friend or companion, contorted into…
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Child mind
Lately, I’ve been trying to be more mindful and present in the moment, and I saw something on the subway the other month that made me smile. It was actually pretty simple: just a mother and her daughter playing a game of “I spy”. The way they engaged each other was just so endearing! The…
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Monkey mind
There’s something about the way the light hits the buildings as the sun rises in the morning. When in daytime the light surrounds them as they stand proudly, as if immortal, at dawn they capture the light against the dark skyline as it fades away into obscurity. That is, it’s discordant with the nature of…
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a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth
Recently I found myself in a bit of a hurry. I was headed to my mum’s, and had forgotten the clothes I’d packed so, instead of the subway, I called an Uber since I was running late. Being driven to Union station felt like a treat I seldom experienced. Relatively speaking, I rarely even need…
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a love note
Just a bit of housekeeping: My subscribers may have noticed that the name of this blog has changed. What was once El Philósopho is now (For the) Love of Wisdom, and the URL has been altered accordingly. Why did I do this? Well, the idea came to me one night when I was unable to…
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the dao is like water
Never mind your Hogwarts house! What type of bender would you be? In case you haven’t seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, let me explain. In Avatar, there are four nations based on the four elements: air, water, earth, and fire. Some members of each nation can control, or “bend”, their respective element, while the Avatar…
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Loss & Life
We’re all different people, all through our lives. And that’s okay, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember the people you used to be. —The Eleventh Doctor I was having a conversation with this professor I know about healing “ministries”, or care professions in general. When we spoke about the kinds…
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The Legacy of No-Legacy
I was scrolling through my Instagram reels the other day when I stumbled upon one that put me in a rather existential mood. It spoke about how, 100 years from now, we’ll be practically unknown, and everything we own will be passed along to someone else or, more than likely nowadays, rotting in a dump…
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The Failure of Conservatism
I don’t talk about politics often on here. The way I see it, those subjects are best left to Facebook arguments with relatives, awkward family dinners, and first dates. (I’m only joking!) Having said that, I’m going to get a bit political today since this has been on my mind. You see, I used to…
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