Category: 3. Muse Better

  • “Grandma is gone.”

    “Grandma is gone.”

    It was late summer, a few weeks before school resumed. I was going into my senior year in college. I was quite conscious of the fact that that was the last summer break of my life. Those were the last few carefree weeks I got to spend in Hong Kong before I flew back to…

  • Super Heroes đŸŠčđŸ»

    “Who is your super hero?” I used to ask this as an interview question. I liked it because it was fun and telling. I am 45 and I am to have some fun answering this question again. Muse like Austin Kleon and master the skill to be in awe with life’s most mundane things. See…

  • Year 2020, in #Fail

    I attempted many things, and most of them ended in 
 failures. Yea I can say I learned from them, but to me, the best way to salvage those lost time is to muse about them. 1. Journaling Gosh I tried so many times- morning journals, dusk journals, bullet journals, 5 minute journals, 5 year…

  • Year 2020, in Cool Finds

    I have been trying to ween off of social media in the last few years. I deleted my Facebook account. I tried to not use WhatsApp (but failed). I installed TikTok and had to throw my phone out of the window because TikTok was as powerful as The One Ring. Since then, I continued to…

  • Christmas 2020

    Christmas 2020

    I listened to Michael J. Fox’s interview with Terri Gross. He talked about gratitude. He has been battling Parkinson’s for 30 years. For him to share how he had to work on remaining genuinely grateful was a stern reminder of why we should and could all be truly grateful, often. He also talked about how…

  • Struggle Everyday

    I silence my mindget through the morning workoutdamn mind comes right back

  • 🏙

    The blue broad and wiltedThrough windows that chill the palmsBirds hutch over ledges

  • Why These Cliches Make Life Worse And Then Great

    The purpose of life is finally obvious. It is not fun. It’s dull. It’s not romantic at all. Not something we would see in a super hero movie. The purpose of life is to go through it, raise some human beings, do some good, do less bad, and see what happens. But we lose sight…

  • What Am I?

    “No one is stronger than the person who knows who and what he is.” Rabbi Sacks There are two indicators of one becoming old. First, it was when I could no longer see the digits on my watch clearly without extending my arm completely. The other was when I started to repeatedly re-ponder pointless existential…

  • Every Morning

    He frantically searchesFor an empty toilet stallI am glad I pooped