In the big picture, one month is nothing. One month of the year could make for fun ratio's: 1/12th of 1/24 years of life or something. One little month-long writing project isn't really much. It didn't change anything, I didn't fall in love with words more. I'll probably write just as much (or just as little) as previous to this project.
Writing regularly is fun. Apologies for the haphazardly-written pieces that leave even me confused but too lazy to edit. Thinking of topics and events and, "I could blog about this" is fun. More important, going through this one little month in life with the attitude of gratefulness and loving twenty-four reminds me of the simple challenge of amazing days in This Ordinary Adventure (book by Adam & Christine Jeske, which I plan to read in the next couple months). Themes include the following: Not knowing but that's okay, Lots of maturity but where I am now is still good, and Try things you're not good at. And if the past month of posts isn't obvious, something about Asian-American-Ethnic-Identity-Crossing-Cultures is a big deal in my life too.
Still, in a funny way, I end this 31-day project the way I started it: sitting in the family room of my first home, the house of my family in the Bay Area. Oh San Jose--still home, yet now seen through a lens of six years in Stockton and a new city to love. How different I am since I moved away six years ago. How much you are part of who I am now.
Anyway. Since I'm at home, there are about ten other things I could be doing right now: watching Korean music videos with Anthony, bugging my little brother, eating Taiwanese cookies from my third-grade best friend, watching old Chinese dramas with my parents. More blogging later!
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On a completely random note, Alexi Murdoch's Something Beautiful is climbing the list of my favorite songs. If you are Darrell you are probably sarcastically nodding because you know the list has about fifty other songs, and you're already predicting my next sentence: "no really, one of my real favorites."
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