This is where I’ll be putting up blog posts about my interests in literature, science, jiu-jitsu, or random topics that stir me to sit here and write.
I often reflected on a proverb. I cannot say when I first came upon it. Maybe I read it in a translated Japanese text, or was it Mandarin? There's about a thirty-percent chance that it had Cantonese origins. Though it's more likely that it was a meme of mysterious origins (scrawled with ball-point pen on …
Continue reading In Defense of Violence: Ancient Japanese/Chinese/Internet Proverbs
I once had a garden. A dream of one before that. It was a small garden, at first. Okay, just four tomato plants that I had bought at the Home Depot. Though it consisted of four humble plants that I repotted to a larger planter, it was my garden. I watered it faithfully, and waited …
How I felt the majority of 2016: I'd like to take a moment to reflect on 2016... There that's it. I've taken the moment. Thanks for nothing you dick punch of a year! Now on to the hopefulness that the new year brings. For many of us this is the time to make resolutions, though …
I was recently drafting a premise for a post. It was one that I felt particularly sure about at the moment of its inception. It was one that arose out of a fire that had been building and consuming my thoughts. I was so sure that the premise was based on a truth, and so …
J. Manuel 