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It’s been another month being a Youth Development Professional, creating opportunities for children to access learning moments in a safe, structured environment that’s as educational as it is fun and play.

And this is the point of the timeline where we need to kick it up a notch and turn these kids’ worlds upside-down and lead them to believe that the previous weeks’ amazements were only a prelude of what is yet to come.

Even in the midst of a tornado - Experts: Tornado Tore Through 9 New Hampshire Towns

It was 20 minutes from the camp. It was a particularly scary day with kids running around but it only left rain for us.

Side Note: Drive-in movie theatres are the best thing ever!

I’m re-re-reading The Alchemist so I can remember my Personal Legend and how to listen to the wind.

That and I’m prepping and planning all sorts of educational activities that are fun enough for kids at camp.

On the list include yoga and music time.

And this.

Like most projects I start, they get lots of initial attention but soon find themselves on my ever-lengthening list of things to do.

So I think a good goal would be to at least make one post a week until I can decide exactly what I’m going to do with this and how I’m going to go about it.

So in the meantime, enjoy the cool stuff I find on the net.

TED 2008:

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

I am in Mexico City!!!

So I sympathize with my fellow New Englanders. It is just 80F with no chance of precipitation.

I was planning on utilizing my 6-hour layover in Dulles to fit in a few more posts for The Month of Love but my laptop is not liking the wireless anywhere (not even at the hostel) so there goes that plan.

I flew in Saturday night and I still can not find the apostrophe key, hence my lack of contractions.

And now someone is waiting for the computer so here ends this post.

Tomorrow night I head towards Amecameca, a town right at the foot of a volcano, spending a whole day at a Yoga & Art Festival.

In the Beginning…
Ever since we started learning how to play recorders in the third grade I knew that music would be a part of my life.

I remember telling my parents that I wanted to do music in college and the look of loss and abandon that they gave me. Growing up as an ABC (American-Born Chinese) put me in that transitional generation of kids who often live in two different worlds - I had my suburban New England school life with my suburban New England friends and cafeteria food during the day, and my working-class Hong Kong family and my mother’s rice cooker at night.

Being the first one in my family to go to college, I might as well have told my parents I was running away and joining the circus.

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So I don’t have an aversion to Valentine’s Day because I think it’s great that we devote an entire day to Love. And while it’s always marketed in the U.S. (and thereby perpetuated) as an escapist holiday with overtly romantic overtones, I can look beyond the gift wrap and long-stemmed roses to something deeper beyond the gloss.

So I figured I’d kick off this blog with an introductory series of posts for the month of love and give a narrative on the many ways it shapes and contours my every waking moment and thought.

And it all starts with One.

This is home to the musings and ruminations of a soon-to-be quarter-lifer detailed in lifestreams and article posts that will cover a wide range of topics that are my life pursuits, hobbies, passions, and incidental loves. Part autobiographical, part research, I’m looking to find how and where these seemingly disparate life-spheres intersect and play out. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the ride as much as I will!

peace + <3