This post is long overdue.
As I wrap up my final paper for the semester, it hadn't sunk in me yet. Graduate school is completed. My mind rushes on to the next thing to do, but there was none. I wondered where the writing assignments were. I did not have the veracity to believe that there was none.
I prepared to go to school for a talk. At least, I could do something. I could be active. I could bring a sense of purpose to my being here.
Yet, I felt a nudge in my heart. I felt God telling me that I have been so busy all this while, that perhaps it is time to rest. Perhaps this is unfulfilled nudge within me that prevents me from being happy about my constant stream of Asia Leadership stuff.
I have to get my life organised again, so I turned to Evernote to make a to-do list. And one of them was to clear my log of uncompleted posts.
This is one of them.
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March 11th
I could not remember the details. It had been 2 months and 4 days since this picture was taken. The picture showed snow on two sides of the pavement and water puddles in the small potholes in the pavement. It had been two months of dry and peeling skin, black, thick jackets and layers (and I do mean layers) of pants.
For the first time in these two painstakingly chilly months, I was wearing only one (or many none) inner leggings. My legs felt naked without those layers. I could feel my leg hair brush against my pants. The liberation felt on my legs were also felt in my heart, bringing a smile to my face.
I was walking from the law school gym - Hemenway Gym - to the education school. The picture says so. I have experienced the warmness on my face for the past few hours since I made the deliberate decision to dress 'down' for my day. But it was at this moment when the scene captured me - snow still on the bank on the pavements, water puddles forming on the pavements, trees still bare but seeing signs of fruition, the Sun coming out and warming the Earth, brightness and darkness together yet brightness dominated.
It was the end of a long and cold winter. Hello Spring!
[Update: Or so I thought...it was snowing again on April 1st, when I was in Taiwan.]
As I wrap up my final paper for the semester, it hadn't sunk in me yet. Graduate school is completed. My mind rushes on to the next thing to do, but there was none. I wondered where the writing assignments were. I did not have the veracity to believe that there was none.
I prepared to go to school for a talk. At least, I could do something. I could be active. I could bring a sense of purpose to my being here.
Yet, I felt a nudge in my heart. I felt God telling me that I have been so busy all this while, that perhaps it is time to rest. Perhaps this is unfulfilled nudge within me that prevents me from being happy about my constant stream of Asia Leadership stuff.
I have to get my life organised again, so I turned to Evernote to make a to-do list. And one of them was to clear my log of uncompleted posts.
This is one of them.
--------
March 11th
I could not remember the details. It had been 2 months and 4 days since this picture was taken. The picture showed snow on two sides of the pavement and water puddles in the small potholes in the pavement. It had been two months of dry and peeling skin, black, thick jackets and layers (and I do mean layers) of pants.
For the first time in these two painstakingly chilly months, I was wearing only one (or many none) inner leggings. My legs felt naked without those layers. I could feel my leg hair brush against my pants. The liberation felt on my legs were also felt in my heart, bringing a smile to my face.
I was walking from the law school gym - Hemenway Gym - to the education school. The picture says so. I have experienced the warmness on my face for the past few hours since I made the deliberate decision to dress 'down' for my day. But it was at this moment when the scene captured me - snow still on the bank on the pavements, water puddles forming on the pavements, trees still bare but seeing signs of fruition, the Sun coming out and warming the Earth, brightness and darkness together yet brightness dominated.
It was the end of a long and cold winter. Hello Spring!
[Update: Or so I thought...it was snowing again on April 1st, when I was in Taiwan.]
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