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“No one ever steps in the same river twice”
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος), a philosopher of ancient Greece, once said: "No one ever steps in the same river twice". The first person who translated it into Vietnamese rendered it as "No one bathes twice in the same river," and the phrase remains unchanged in my language. The first time I heard this quote, I was fifteen or sixteen. My youthful…
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All over the place
A rainy evening of April; I have to admit that I am in a difficult situation with my writings. I have plenty of ideas to talk about and a ton of work to work through, but, I am doing nothing. Some days it just feels like dragging a block of granite up a hill, slowly, heavily. I started my website…
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The Transformation of the Fall
The rain is falling steadily out there by the window. The weather has grown much colder. I had just dozed off for a bit when the sound of rain and thunder woke me from my deep slumber. I dreamed of sunny days at Ho Chi Minh City campus and freezing-rainy days in Bao Loc, these two scenes altered in my…
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Summer colors of Wisconsin
Today when I was sitting by the window, doing journalling, the sunlight caught my attention to its different brightness. “It is changing!”, I screamed in my mind. I rushed out of the house with my camera in hand like I feared losing the moment. I went for a walk and randomly stopped by tiny spots on the way to capture…
