02.26.1999
I think an interesting film is something that you can—you can have an aftertaste. Sometimes when you look at the film, you might not get it at the first time, but somehow it lingers. - Wong Kar Wai I love Lee Chang Dong's work. In light of his new upcoming film Possible Love releasing this… Continue reading reflections on Lee Chang Dong’s “Burning”
To film someone is to fall in love with that person. I liked reading ever since I was little. Once I had a book all to myself, my heart would start racing. I always felt that way. When I have a paper and pen, I feel better for no apparent reason; drawing when I was… Continue reading a film idea
If you don’t love somebody, it gets annoying when they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them you get pleasure from their pleasure, and it makes it easy to serve.- Donald Miller, “Blue Like Jazz” When it comes to God, I feel like a parrot. I can easily talk… Continue reading reflections on God’s love for me
A man walks out of the pizza shop. He’s in his mid-forties, wearing a baggy t-shirt and jorts—not in a deliberate, tasteful, Gen-Z type of way, but in the third-generation-hand-me-down, these are the first pants I saw in my drawer when I woke up this morning kind of way. He has a shuffly, waddling gait;… Continue reading imagebearer
after Franz Wright The venue empties slowly then all at once, the way summer evenings do. Like a scene from a stop-motion film, the last guests filter out beneath the California sycamore trees in glimpses, illuminated in frames by the amber string lights hanging overhead. Only the bride and groom remain. They turn slowly together… Continue reading evening journey
Sometimes in life one feels a feeling of wanting to quit. Chubby me, wanting nothing more than to be loved and accepted and perceived as cool, was selected to write a research report on the puffin. Not the apex majesty of the peregrine falcon (which was given to Danny), nor the slick danger of the… Continue reading amazing puffins
It's a World Cup summer. I caught the game—Korea vs. Czechia—alone in my room, having missed a chunk of the first half already. I watched with bated breath. When Korea scored the equalizer, I was happy, but I didn't jump out of my seat in pure elation, and I didn't scream with joy. When the… Continue reading to you, 20 years from now
My brittle steps carried me along until, at long last, I took my final breath. I had come in sight of the sea, with its sparkling ripples, so brilliant all those summers ago, now gauzy and subdued, as if veiled in tulle. And when the seagulls cut through the clear blue sky, their cries speaking… Continue reading apricity
40 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.2 He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog,and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. I recently encountered this Psalm in a… Continue reading psalm 40, a new song
2 minutes away from the concert venue, streets saturated with parked cars, it dawned upon me that I had not considered the parking situation. A responsible man always considers the parking situation. Despondent but desperate, I cut my death spiral of negative thoughts short and stopped the car. I opened up a parking app on… Continue reading space orphan
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