Tag: Free-form Jottings
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Well and Sky
How deep can I sink, how dark can I be. I never perceived the infinite within myself, for I could never imagine the place of my heart as a hollow well without the bottom. I've only imagined it to be a black sky where I sat alone in…
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To Do Inappropriate Things at Inappropriate Times
Recently, an idea that has been engulfing me for the past year became more and more clear to my mind, like the deep subtle waves finally have the chance to release their violence on the surface of the sea. I am officially and seriously considering the option of studying abroad…
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Where is my son?
It was a sunny afternoon in November. The old man went out to the garden of the big house that his son bought him three years ago with a wheelchair. The flowers he planted with his son were swinging in the cool wind. For a long time, he stared at…
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A Class
It was an extremely hot Thursday in July. We woke up early at 6:20 AM as usual, prepared for the Secondary School Admission Test which was only 10 days later. “What is the first class?” Milin asked me. “Politics,” I responded. “Damn it! Should we memorize the things we…
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The Thing I Carry
From a thousand miles across US, I brought this blanket with me. Together we flew for 15 hours and arrived at Porter’s. When I packed my things, mom once said to me, the distance between America and home is far, so is she and me. She hoped the blanket…