I'd like to meet Trudeau to ask him about his ideas of colonization, culture and spirituality.

I think I'm becoming Canadian.

You know you're having a bad day when the boyfriend suggests that you go for a lobotomy.

In other news, I have failed my lent.

I have no more strength or patience to try. I will just be.

Micah 6 -

6 With what shall I come before the LORD
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?

7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
with ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I offer my firstborn for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

8 He has showed you, O man, what is good.
And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.

Let it all come down to this.

I guess one thing 公公 and I have in common, is that we both worship Lee Kwan Yew albeit for different reasons I'm sure. I don't know about him, but in my eyes, this man stands for a fierce self-awareness resulting in the ability to look at a world that is not his, a game whose rule-makers are set up against him, and not flinch. And beyond that, he recognized this reality, even when it is easier to delude oneself against its existance. And he did so without seeing the need to change himself and consequentially, us. We grew, naturally, instead of trying to fit our rounds bodies into square holes.

Maybe now, we're deformed circle-squares. But at least we are our own.

(I think.)

But at any rate. I look at him and see who I want to be: To recognize reality, to not be ashamed of inherent disadvantage, to embrace my being and to build life on strength, not hand outs.

This is your story, I want to see you live it well.
~ Curtis

This is for Daniel. *Heart*





~lolcats

For the first time

I'm not stressed about not doing the things I feel like I ought to be doing. I just won't, if I don't want to. There's a line between obligation and responsibility. It has also become a boundary.

It is easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission.

So now, are we supposed to applaud?

When elephants make love, the grass beneath their feet suffer. What more when they make war?
~ LKY: The Singapore Story.

We talk about the validity of policy enacted within different jurisdictions. What about the validity of the structures that differentiate these jurisdictions?

I have ALMOST made my peace with snow.
In deep silence and prayer, it is almost possible to hear the calm.

So awesome.