Fighting to Survive Life
🚀 Poem: The Greatest Pirate of All Time, The Woman Warrior, Shi Yang (石陽 1775–1844) 🚀
How do you keep your dreams alive?
It starts with love. . .
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Listen to “Grain in Ear” by singer Mang Chủng while reading this. . .
Poem:
Warrior of Learning: Becoming a Doctor of Philosophy
growing up in poverty, . . . seeing friends die on the streets, . . . hoping to survive hell, having a crazy father who beat me, loving to learn, loving comic books, magazines about France, thinking I am in another world, shadows talking to me, vampires visiting me, doing math for fun, kissing girls and running as they trying to kick me, radiating hope and youth, but knowing the end coming soon, slowly hating school, being alone in the darkness of doom loving chocolate chip cookies, baking my own super hero cookies, imagining myself Chocolate Chip Man, here to save the world, HAHAHA, failing classes, finding a way to graduate, sacking groceries, delivering newspapers, and mowing lawns, going to college hitting a wall, mother dying, life suffocating me, making a promise, returning to college, learning coding, designing web sites for fun, being hired at a university with my PhD., becoming IT because no one knowing how to set up computers, going from office to office, being respected, not being paid much, creating online classes, the first, helping others, hating my low pay job, always helping others, earning more degrees including one on Spanish literature, seeing my heavenly mother opening a chocolate chip fortune cookie, reminding me that she walked from North Korea to freedom, . . during the Korean War, telling me she is proud of me, . . . explaining that I am a minority and many are always . . . putting and trying to pull me down, but shouting, never feeling the blues, never allowing them to pull you down, . . . looking at the stars and angels who are flying with me, . . . going higher and higher, diving deeper and deeper into learning more and more and more, remember the greatest pirate of all times was a Chinese woman warrior Shi Yang (石陽 1775–1844) 🚀 commanding her own navy of 400 ships, 80,000 men, never losing a battle, surrendering and given a pardon, living her life her way< finding inner peace, my mother telling me to be Shi Yang, allowing the Yang powers within to mix with the Yin powers, transcending dualities, and becoming oneself, free, . . . entering the tao, the island of motivation. . . free at last. . . . love. . . . . . . thank you so much, there have been movies in China about this mystical invincible woman, Tao means mother nature, I want to thank my mother with tears in my eyes, who died young and who loved me with all her heart.
🚀It starts with love. . . Deep Learning! Dive! Dive! Dive! Spending thirty years teaching, I was the director of the writing program, the director of the writing center at my university, and I am a Ted Talk Speaker.
Stay for at least 300 years or 300 seconds, highlight and clap 500 times, comment, run 50 miles: Thank you for being wonderful!
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