Make sure those things are for you. You definitely deserve to lavish on yourself

There are still several groups that are working at cultural resurgence and reintegration. Several groups of Siraya, Makatao as well as groups of Pazeh, Popora and Taokas are seeking official recognition.

A Sweatshop!

*went

She blocked me a long time ago after poking fun at her trust in Taiwan’s aggregate and concrete suppliers. She then when full xenophobe on me (you aren’t allowed to opine) when I voiced surprise she had never heard of Yan Ching-piao. I see I haven’t missed much.

Mariners fans don’t talk about anything right now.

Like the Greek gods of yore, the baseball gods don’t look kindly on hubris… it’s just with the Mariners that seems to be seen as expressing any type of positivity or hope.

Grief will ache…. But grief is not for others, it is entirely about our own sense of our hurt and loss.

Grief means we are open to listening to our own feelings even in hurt and loss.

It also pointe us to those things that remind us it’s okay to feel.

Totally! It’s just a way of experiencing the world ffs.

I know a guy who covers his other harmful problems by claiming “autism made me do it”… but the day he called himself an autism “sufferer” I knew he was likely faking it.

Maybe it’s not getting worse. Maybe it’s just the end of bad.

Just making that statement deserves applause. Many of us feel this way and don’t dare speak truth to it. You’re very brave.

Love yourself to the max and make sure everyone else does too… don’t accept any less back than you are willing to give.

You surely are deserving of everything.

It will be there within the half hour

Remember the hope of the sunflowers started with despair and hopelessness.

Something will happen. The KMT will misread this as an endorsement, and people will rise up using their new networks to enact change.

Taiwanese always stand back up.

And nobody’s happiness should come from your pain either.

You really care a lot about others…

I’m sure you’re fine.
Maybe you aren’t used to seeing things outside the simple dichotomy of right and wrong. Maybe it’s not even the important question at all.

This is from S’éveiller Pâtiesserie (甦醒法式甜點) in Taichung’s Houli District.

Dennis, I tell your story as often and as well as I can to my art students who are often pressured into career paths that sound “profitable” to nervous parents with artistically gifted children.