February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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“Leadership is pursuit – pursuit of excellence, of elegance, of truth, of what’s...”
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[Day Eleven: Number Eleven]
11. Tides Foundation
If I could work for any organization right now, hands down, it’d be this one.
“Tides is a nonprofit organization that works at the heart of today’s most critical issues, supporting grantees and programs that are core to our country’s nonprofit infrastructure and social service delivery. We work in partnership with people whose...
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“Even though loving ourselves should be something we already know, there are...”
– Anh-Thu
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Watch[Day Seven: Number Seven]
7. Miss Representation Documentary
“The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.”
I watched this documentary from start to finish, no pausing. This film’s message was so powerful. You can attend a screening, hold a screening, or…I’ve found...
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Watch[Day One l Number One:]
1. The Are You Happy? Project: Make a video asking your community the eternal question: Are you happy?
Take part in this collaborative project inspired from a documentary in which 50 years ago Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin asked people in the streets of Paris: Are you happy?
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12 Days of Christmas; 12 Ways of Gifting
The world is becoming smaller and smaller, and we’re realizing just how similar we are to one another. For the next twelve days, I’m going to be sharing with you twelve humanitarian projects l initiatives l organizations that I think are doing great work in bringing communities together. Each one will have a very specific way for you to contribute and be part of a message or belief...
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on new initiatives.
I have been in the midst of graduate applications, so I haven’t had much time to really delve into my work lately. Hy and I had a long conversation last night (during a one of the creepiest drives of my life. Don’t ever drive along 59S after 5pm. In the fog. In the rain.) and a huge project/collaboration is in the works. This project will not only utilize our combined six years of...
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“When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences - their insignificant, everyday experiences - so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others - and how many there are! - are driven through surging waves of destiny, the most multifarious currents of the times and the nations, and yet always remain on top, bobbing like a cork, then we...
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on words.
“Beyond my solitude is another solitude, and to him who dwells therein my aloneness is a crowded market-place and my silence a confusion of sounds.
Too young am I and too restless to seek that above-solitude. The voices of yonder valley still hold my wars, and its shadows bar my way and I cannot go.
Beyond these hills is a grove of enchantment and to him who dwells therein my peace is...
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on domesticity, the list.
If I were to ever settle down & have a family, these are the following stipulations:
1) One-story 1930’s yellow home
2) Children* must have siblings (plural)
3) Children must, must, must be weird. (The most delightful part of my trip is realizing how weird my little brother is. Hurrah!)
4) Neighbors an amicable elderly couple who still holds hands
5) Yard equipped with wooden...
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on domesticity, the thoughts.
“The Cult of Domesticity developed as family lost its function as economic unit. Many of links between family and community closed off as work left home. Emergence of market economy and the devaluation of women’s work. Increasingly, then, home became a self-contained unit. Privacy was a crucial issue for nineteenth-century families, and can see this concern in the spatial development...
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young people use internet slang.
Ai: - shakes head -
me: oh! Ai there's new computer slang for that!
I just discovered it from some tweens.
Ai: what is it!?!?
me: it's SMH
(shaking my head)
Ai: omg lol
TSC (that's so cool)
me: this conversation is so uncool.
Ai: hahah
we'll forever be those people...
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um, omg omg omg did i just make it onto hy.the.great.'s blog? FOTF. (fall on the floor)
November 2011
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Translation:
Chi Ai, hurry up and come back to Vietnam
We miss you a lot, but we’ve just been too busy to keep in touch.
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A few weeks ago, an old friend asked, “Have you ever thought about letting [Vietnam] go?” (In reference to me coming back next year)
And...
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on domesticity, the preview.
Home life or devotion to it.
Oh domesticity, art thou the life for me?
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on confidence.
Confidence is a tricky concept. Like most things in life, there is an extremely fine line of a healthy amount of confidence. Confidence is very much an internal struggle, but old friends make fighting that fight just a little easier.
Thank you, old friend. Your words inspire me to be better.
Plus, I finally learned how to Print Screen on a Mac. Small victories.
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October 2011
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on youth & volunteerism 2.0
The Monta Vista kids are expanding! They’re now International Youth Advancement Alliance. I’m so proud!
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non-profit management: financing, not fundraising*
*Excerpt from Social Velocity, a consulting firm for non-profits.
5 Lies to Stop Telling Donors by Neil Edgington:
if you want to break free of the exhausting cycle of fundraising, a key step is to start being brutally honest with funders. Here are the top 5 lies you have to stop telling donors:
X% of your donation goes to the program The distinction between “program expenses” and “overhead”...
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Echoing Green: Bold Ideas for Social Change... →