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New Year thoughts

New Year thoughts

Topic: making life brighter Thesis: celebrating Tet and keeping a positive mindset can make our lives brighter. A Celebrating Tet and cultivating a positive mindset can make our lives brighter. Celebrating Tet makes our lives brighter. Tet has many traditional practices which emphasize goodwill. For example, giving lucky money to children, sharing special foods, visiting family, offering altar tributes, and wishing each other well. Gestures of goodwill like these make life brighter for ourselves and others. Tet also emphasizes practices…

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Tarzan, check your phone!

Tarzan, check your phone!

I don’t want to think about __.What are you doing to prepare for your future? Tarzan is in the jungle. He can’t check his phone.Tarzan only knows the jungle. He doesn’t have a phone.Where the buildings end and the jungle begins, I got a call from Tarzan.I’m going to find Tarzan and ask him that.

Not a problem

Not a problem

How far ahead are your plans?Do you want friends, money, or time? You don’t have to always know where you’re going.There’s time to stop for tea and think. I did that for a long time.Once I see where to go, I keep going. Maybe I stop for tea again.Make way for the person who doesn’t know where to go.

Sweet meeting

Sweet meeting

I ______ together with others. I’m so lucky that ______ . Some wild animal was eating my sweet potato.Where crowded stools and coffee drinkers face the passing traffic.Something else that was sweet in a crowded place where strangers meet.Surprised and delighted at where I find my feet.

Should be

Should be

I am good at ___ . I don’t care about ___ . I should be living alone on a mountain.I should be doing work, but I’m watching cartoons on youtube.The sun will give you wrinkles. You should put on a hat.I should be watching cartoons alone on a mountain.

My likes

My likes

On my street I hear the sounds of __________. Home is where the ______ is. On my street I hear the sounds of the school grounds. This fan is blowing on my shirt, cooling my skin, keeping away the mosquitoes. This condensed milk gives my coffee the sweetness that I like, adding more to what I like. I don’t stray very far from home.  I’m staying close to my likes.

Drifting

Drifting

The 2 friends are drifting apart because _______. I talked about _____ with my friend. These boats are drifting down the river.I abandoned my plans, and now I’m drifting.Talking to my friends — coffee, tea, pens; that’s all I’m doing.I don’t know where I’m going.

Swimmer

Swimmer

Tell me about a stranger you remembered. Why did you remember them? What is the local noodle? Where is it found? The storm is deadly, but the swimmer is safe. Swimming like a pencil in the rain.  She got carried away, but now the sun is shining on her. Swimming like a bowl of noodles, better now than before, now better on her own. She is a swimmer.  She can ride the tide.

Happy nails

Happy nails

Do you miss any place? When did you get here? I can’t adjust to being back. Who can even understand I have somewhere else. Early mornings we’re unpacking boxes of coffee, syrup, cups. Inside and outside, i am in different places.  Like I’m not really here.