In May of 2017, the inevitable finally happened. I witnessed my father take his last breath on a mattress we set up for him on his bedroom floor. He was 75. I had just come back from being in Seoul, Korea for eight months acting in plays with the Seoul Shakespeare Company (I was cast…
We’ve been socially conditioned since birth to take part in this vastly unsustainable system that has long been decoupled from any consideration for ecological sustainability. We’ve abandoned our balance with nature opting instead for this infinite-growth, consumer-driven market economy, on a planet with finite resources and extremely delicate and interconnected life systems. And gone unchecked, our current paradigms and ways of thinking not only threaten our immediate health but are eventually going to drive us all off a cliff. Is that not insanity?
From time to time when I would get into a situation where I couldn’t avoid a conversation with my Dad, he would ask me what I was doing with my time, if I was being “productive”. He had some nerve. It would absolutely shame him to know how hard I work, day in and day…
Personal Statement Twenty years ago when I was tasked with writing a “Personal Statement” to get into college, I didn’t have writer’s block, I had emotional blocks. I skirted around any task that would make me confront my hardship as an abused child with a sick sister of confused and tortured Korean immigrant parents. Growing up,…