Life is a Parable

If life were a parable, Would you understand? Would you take the time to seek the teacher and ask the right questions? Would you hear the parable and seek its meaning? Or Would you turn your eyes? Would you be seeing, yet not perceiving? Would you turn blind, stop up and deafen your ears? Though…

A Thousand Moments Like Those

We may never have a moment where we just chill. no need to say anything. we sit and not speak, where we'll sit and just think. with no words needed. they will remain unspoken. and thought is our token. I'd like it better if we, just, relax, because we don't have to try. I'll know what you…

Perfect

I don’t like you because you’re perfect. You have issues with commitment and being consistent. And staying true, although I know you Want a family one day. But we’re only getting older babe. And you'll find yourself alone, if you keep living that way. But I don't like you because you're perfect. You have this thing…

Afterthoughts

You told me once that you ‘know me better than I think.’ And part of me wanted to ask ‘what's that supposed to mean?’ But the other side of me won. Because if there was anybody at all, then you were the one, who could tell me all about my wants and needs that you…

My Namesake (cont’d)

“Whuddabout the othuh name?” I asked. “Whea you git Oshea from?” “I got it from this music artist I used tuh like,” my dad answered, again with little explanation. I thought through the old-school artists I knew my dad listened to, but the name Oshea did not jog my memory of late-80’s/early-90’s hip hop and…

My Namesake

I told my friend I liked him once but I guess he didn’t return the feelings, and he turned me down. I was hopelessly rejected. I was distraught. I was alone. I was single. He didn’t want me. But to be honest, I was none of those things besides single. I had little to no…

Home with Me

We hadn't talked for a long time, but when you heard my voice again you felt it was home. Home. Yet I feel like you still avoid me like the plague. It hurts me, you know. I know you loved me once, and I believe you love me now in a way. But still you keep…

Hiroshima 広島 and Miyajima 宮島

I've been able to explore a lot. I've visited Onomichi, stopped by Tokyo, explored Kyoto with friends, gone to Nagoya, seen Osaka. But not until last weekend did I go to the largest city of my own prefecture, Hiroshima. Hiroshima is the city we all know as the target of the 1945 atomic bombing by…

Keeping It Interesting Cont’d

There are still a lot of things I can improve on, but one thing I did not expect was to receive complaints for doing my job decently well. We teachers get a lot of petty complaints--I don't understand anything; you said my name wrong; you speak quickly; it's difficult, etc. But my strangest complaint was that…

Keeping It Interesting

Some of my baby students are amazingly fast learners. They are brilliant and it's incredible to see such young children learning so much. Others, however, baffle me with how brilliant they are not... I seriously don't understand how they can be that slow. I don’t say this to be humorous at all though. I have a genuine…