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From blah to buoyant, these skills can improve your mood and optimism Last fall, thousands of people took part in a stress reduction study, learning skills that can improve mood and reduce anxiety. The results are in: Here's what they show.

Last fall, thousands of people took part in a stress reduction study, learning skills that can improve mood and reduce anxiety. The results are in: Here's what they show.

Well, thanks for coming to my TED talk while waiting for OHK to pick me up 🥸 (a Vietnamese street dog for the dopamine)!

I literally can’t sit for the entirety of a movie (a fun fact an ex would remind me of like— ok it’s the length of half a series season, NO, I cannot!) but on this long-ass grievous ✈️ I saw the new to me Deadpool, Quiz Lady, Knives Out, and Moana 2 😏

Shortest stint to ancestral land of my life— five? Six? Days in country. But! I did finish 2 books, started 2 more, and study for my boards (a little over a week!). THE THOUGHTS I HAVE on how we did Britney wrong 😫

Little joys: The luggage carts are now free at PWM 🌲 Dirigo, indeed.

Thought drivel since I’ve been traveling back from Asia the past day+ 🤔 is it ever okay to cut your fingernails (with clippers if that matters) on a flight? #SeatmateSorrows

THE COMMITTEE WEIGHS IN I tell my mother I've won the Nobel Prize. Again? she says. Which discipline this time? It's a little game we play: I pretend I'm somebody, she pretends she isn't dead.

I love this devastating piece from Andrea Cohen.

From @seanthomasd.bsky.social's book, The Second O of Sorry. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social.

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From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything.

Get it here: bookshop.org/a/862/978155...

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thinking of Mary Oliver writing, "We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power"—and there really is so much in how a culture responds to loss, to mortality & vulnerability. do we try (endlessly, violently) to "conquer" it? suppress/erase/export it? or do we face it? do we grieve?

cười / rire (Vietnamese + French) 🍓 🌙

normalize reframing "holy shit this comment thread has gone feral" with "oh neat, this comment thread has become a helpful attractor to find people I'd like to block"

“Could these two pleasures—in naming our emotions and in realizing those names will always be inadequate—even be mutually reinforcing?” ❤️‍🩹

Slices of love: Cut fruit is my Asian mom’s love language Every day, the bowl [of fruit] looks different. One day, she'll make grid-like cuts into a halved mango so that we can easily scoop out its insides. The next day, she’ll arrange pear slices into a bea...

Here two images of jackfruit, my latest 🐇 🕳️ in these #DurianDiaries while cramming for my boards (as they slide me plates of yes, cut fruit). Pull quote: stanforddaily.com/2022/02/14/s...

Feeling tender about cut fruit—while many have in recent times expressed interest in this as a new care language, children of Asian parents may keenly feel this quiet, but strong love (e.g. “It’s her way of making sure that the bitter moments of my day can be instantly fixed with pure sweetness.”).

From Garous Abdolmalekian's book, Lean Against This Late Hour. Translated from the Persian by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey.

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Sigh, c'est comme ça? 🖖

There is headiness (+heaviness) in the perfumed air of the first of the street flowers in the morning market run #DurianDiaries 🥀

In another life, street dogs have fuller bellies + my heart feels a little lighter ❤️‍🩹 #DurianDiaries