I made some chicken salad for lunch, today. I poured some store-bought raspberry vinaigrette dressing over it. I drank a cup of tea with milk, afterwards. I also picked my mom up from Walmart where she was doing some grocery shopping; we drove home and I put the groceries away in the kitchen. ~ My…
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I’ve never been involved in politics, because I’m not political. I’ve never been involved in academia, because I’m not academic. I’m not anything, in fact. I like creative writing, art/illustration, videography, and photography, and I’m gonna try to focus on these areas while I work day jobs. It’s funny, ‘cause I don’t really feel that…
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Sometimes I wish I had a real cause or movement that I can grasp onto and turn to for purpose and concrete meaningfulness. I mean I feel I have spirituality and the idea of god; and I have visual art, and literature. (I consume a lot of books, and I like to look at drawings…
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Why do I feel I need emotional comfort and security? I had almost died of loneliness one time in 2015, when I was alone in my family’s townhouse for about three weeks—my sibling and mother had went overseas to the UAE, where dad was working at the time; it was something of a necessary trip…
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A look at the benefits of artistic expression—especially visual art—beyond political commentary, protest art, and art for social change. I feel that the arts have often been studied and considered for the social commentary and political protest that it can embody, or put forth. I feel that the arts have been lauded or approved of…
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The current discourse on outsiders and outcasts seems to further alienate and derogate them, rather than achieve the goal of defining them in a neutral manner, or showing any empathy to them. In addition, the current discourse seems to define them through potential sociopolitical aspects of their identities–demographic traits like sexual orientation, religious beliefs and…
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