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The Parables

·Feb 26, 2021

One Hundred Is When I Will Go

My great-grandmother, 98, uncovers her anxieties, regrets, and things she’s thankful for amid isolation from the pandemic. — My great-grandmother turned toward me, but her focus was somewhere distant. We sat on the stone wall of her raised garden, staring at the 40-foot pine trees towering over her house; they were knee-high when she planted them over half a century ago. The cold, dry weather wrought strong south-west…

Life Lessons

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One Hundred Is When I Will Go
One Hundred Is When I Will Go
Life Lessons

7 min read


Nov 6, 2020

A Celebration of the Mundane: The Umbrella Cover Museum

Nancy 3. Hoffman put down her Serenelli accordion. “I’ve been trying hard to learn when people are smiling,” she said. As the curator of the world’s only umbrella cover museum, she ends each tour with a song about the beauty of the mundane. “I could tell you were smiling, thank…

Profile

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A Celebration of the Mundane: The Umbrella Cover Museum
A Celebration of the Mundane: The Umbrella Cover Museum
Profile

2 min read


Nov 4, 2020

The Neighborhood of Empty Houses

I came to realize my neighbors were nothing but empty houses. Homes over an extended grassy lot piled high with a diverse collection of belongings — from furniture and books to anniversary gifts. It has been over three years since I found these homes, and only recently, in my quarantined…

Abandoned

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The Neighborhood of Empty Houses
The Neighborhood of Empty Houses
Abandoned

7 min read


Mar 25, 2020

Psychoanalysts to Cribstone: A look at a small Maine Island

Maine’s fragmented coast offers a plethora of islands, towns, and attractions. Still, one parcel of land stands out with its surprising background: Bailey Island harbors centuries of fascinating history with its own name going through numerous iterations. The island’s original Algonquian name, issued by the Abenaki tribe, was Newaggin. William…

Maine

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Psychoanalysts to Cribstone: A look at a small Maine Island
Psychoanalysts to Cribstone: A look at a small Maine Island
Maine

5 min read


Feb 2, 2020

Sentimental Sewing: The Stories That Made A Museum

“It was the first inanimate object I had a moment with,” said Wayne “W.K.” Binger as he leaned over Lucy, his 201–2 Singer sewing machine. Lucy rests atop a wooden sewing table in front of a Lucy Ricardo mural–an association, Wayne explained, that came after he spontaneously named her. As…

Sewing

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Sentimental Sewing: The Stories That Made A Museum
Sentimental Sewing: The Stories That Made A Museum
Sewing

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Oct 3, 2019

Can a Photographer Emotionally Charge a Photograph Through Intent?

A photograph is intriguing, not from how a subject is composed or portrayed, but because of a photographer’s ability to impose emotion in a fleeting moment. Photography is emotionally driven work and reflects the photographer’s subconscious; it is not exclusively an act of capturing images to document moments. With the…

Photography

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Can a Photographer Emotionally Charge a Photograph Through Intent?
Can a Photographer Emotionally Charge a Photograph Through Intent?
Photography

4 min read


Aug 10, 2019

The Violent Progression of Protests in Hong Kong

I am deeply disturbed by the events that unfolded on the 5th of August, and the progression of the protests in Hong Kong since the break-in at the LegCo building. As an American, I admit the bias towards the push for a democratic and independent Hong Kong, but I am…

Hong Kong

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The Violent Progression of Protests in Hong Kong
The Violent Progression of Protests in Hong Kong
Hong Kong

3 min read


Jun 21, 2019

Hong Kong: Disappearing in Slow Motion

“Along with the rise of Xi Jinping, and the desire of Hong Kongers for democracy, the Central Government has already started bringing authoritarian governance to Hong Kong,” a Standing Committee Member of Demosistō, the pro-democracy party, told me. He is referring to the political changes in Hong Kong’s governance due…

China

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Hong Kong: Disappearing in Slow Motion
Hong Kong: Disappearing in Slow Motion
China

19 min read

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