A Message from Asian American Storytellers in Unity (AASIU): Last year, when the world shut down and anti-Asian violence increased, a group of Asian American storytellers began meeting weekly to provide support and friendship to its members. From this beginning, Asian American Storytellers in Unity grew into a collective whose mission is to promote and …Read More
Month: May 2021
Want to Get Great at Something? Get a Coach
“I learned everything I need to know in medical school.” In one model of education, we learn from experts. They teach us what we need to know. They equip us with the knowledge and the skills to enter the real world. As we are pushed or jump out of the nest, we begin to fly …Read More
The Lost Words Blessing
Enter the wild with care, my loveAnd speak the things you seeLet new names take and root and thrive and growAnd even as you travel far from heather, crag and riverMay you like the little fisher, set the stream alight with glitterMay you enter now as otter without falter into water Look to the sky …Read More
The Owl and the Pussy-cat
“Sometimes life just needs a little nonsense!” ~ Dr. Joel Ying “The Owl and the Pussy-cat” is a whimsical and humorous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, written in 1867 and first published in 1871 as part of his book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. The poem was written for the three-year-old daughter of a …Read More
The Power in Sharing our Stories ~ Kao Kalia Yang
“If Hmong tears could reincarnate, we would rain the world with our sorrow.” Kao Kalia Yang spent her early years listening to the stories of her Hmong family in a Thai refugee camp. At six years old, her family immigrated to the United States. Her family had little to give, but they gave her stories. …Read More