Category: Reflections

Lessons From a Borrowed Home

Reflecting on the protests in Hong Kong.

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Yellow Afternoons

“There were always guava and mango, grapefruit and lychee. But, above all, there was always mother.”

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One-Minute Devotions

“I wondered what or who—a simple puzzle, a stakeless one, but one that, in context, made my expectation of strangeness a mystery lived.”

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On Playing School

A personal reflection on compensating student athletes.

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Solutions of the Spirit: Art Under Climate Threat

Advocating for art and creativity despite despair about the environment.

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Seeking Nature in Suburbia

“Like clockwork, the dull roars of airplane engines drown out the wind and occasional cricket chirps…”

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Moments of Dreams: Dawes in Six Albums and Seven Stories

“In my moments of dogged hope, I would play “Moon in the Water,” an acoustic ballad where Goldsmith proclaims that ‘Love is for the fighter / Born to lose but never quit / Swinging for the moon in the water.’”

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Fireworks

“We were watching the same lights, inhaling the same air, and waiting for the same New Year to come, wishing the same things for our family and heading towards the same future.”

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There Is No There Here, On The Presidential Race From an Uninformed Perspective

“I used to be a political junkie. Then 2016 happened, and I realized that that life was not for me.”

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FSI Lingo

“A guide from first-years who already know what’s up…”

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Towpath

“Oak trees, no longer mute, lose their even trim and the path invariably assumes a new and rugged imprecision.”

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“Complete Confidence”: A Reflection on Title IX Protests at Princeton

“The protest was born of frustration at the unspeakable natures of both Title IX and the traumas of sexual assault. The protest was chaotic and it was hurt and it was loud.”

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