Month: December 2020
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Backpack Buying 🎒
I spent months trying to look for a new backpack. My old Fjallraven was destroyed. There were two big holes in the bottom of the computer compartment. One of them was repaired and then broke again. Zippers were coming off. The bag was exceptional in terms of usability, weight, and capacity. I liked the clamshell…
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做就,斡旋。
在回顧2020年的過程中,我與忽略了很久的詞語,「斡旋」,乍然重逢。 從2000年開始,世事感覺越來越混亂。我知道,理智和歷史提醒我們,現在的情況肯定不是最壞的。但當我們每刻每秒都被爭論、慌亂、矛盾、和荒誕支配時,實在很難不感到絕望。 然後,我開始想起兩個英文動詞:facilitate, mediate.。我在尋找方法,活用自己的能力,為改變現狀而出一分力。而我的強項,就是facilitate和mediate。而當我在幻想如何向香港的朋友解釋我的意願時,想到了「做就」和「斡旋」兩詞。 究竟我們還有機會回到較理智、更包容的社會環境嗎?事實很可悲,因為今天的動盪,並不是因為一小撮無知、心術不正、或心懷不軌的人所造成的。這是發生在歷史上最多人得到文明、財富、教育的時代。換言之,現在的狀況,是最理智、理論上最包容的時代的產物。那試問,我這個平凡無奇的人,憑什麼可能改變這條大洋船的航道呢?不被她的漣漪淹死就該還神了。 唉,所以啊,能對得住自己,能向我的兒女交代的唯一做法,就是盡力而為。而我這刻覺得需要嘗試的地方,就是育成一個能做就大家互相斡旋的社會。 如何去做呢?
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Last Month of the 💩2020 – A Pledge to Do Good
This is it. The final month of 2020. I won’t waste time bitching about it. We have been bitching about it every day for the last 335 days. What can we do in the last 30 days to feel less useless? Do the work and find one cause that you feel good giving back to.…