Jambao24 - Jameses Boa

10 min loop of Mateus Asato cover of “You’re Still the One”

Made with Discord’s/Meta’s media embeds feature, iPhone’s record feature, and iMovie. Enjoy! #mateusasato #guitarcover #instramentalcover #yourestilltheone #shaniatwaincover

tl;dr- this is 2 hours late

I don't know why I decided to wake up at 8 am yesterday morning, on a solid 4.5 hours of sleep, to help a bunch of tree huggers dig out blackberry plants and pass heavy buckets of mulch down a hillside park no one gives a rat's tail about anyway, only to find myself still up at 1:30am, frantically scribbling away at my homework that I had the entire weekend to do.

But there is one thing I do know. I know that yesterday was the day where we commemorate a man who changed the lives of millions as he fought tooth and nail to bring justice to an oppressed people, a man who accomplished more with peace and love than most could dream to do with guns, germs and steel, a man whose humility and altruism inspires nobodies like me to run out of my cozy dorm on a chilly Monday morning and help restore an urban forest park. Sure, it's not like uprooting a few invasive species or passing a few buckets of dirt is going to save the planet or anything. But if there's one thing the Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior has shown, it's that giving back is giving back, period, whether it's to your family or friends, community or country. Everything counts, no matter how insignificant, and even though I might never change the world like MLK did, that doesn't stop my from feeling an obligation to honor his memory by giving back, just as he did, with UW Earth Club, volunteering for Earth Core, on this sunny day in Seattle. For lack of something better to say, Happy MLK day everyone.

#vocalmedia #shortstory #submission #feast #food #baklava #baking #nostalgia

The Baklava Dude

There is the joy of eating food, and there is the joy of gifting food.

Wrote this piece in a hurry for Vocal Media’s The Perfect Pair challenge. It got removed from the challenge a couple hours after being accepted as a story, but oh well. I wanted to write about one of my quirks that I picked up in college. 

Confessions

An Offering of Chili Mango

Virtue Signaling to my Superego via Acts of Kindness

New Vocal Media story! (despite the title I promise it has nothing to do with dried fruit) Submitted this to the Remarkably Real Challenge

Coldplay- The Scientist

Naveed Chowdhury

Notes Toward a Dreampolitik

Right now I am in Los Angeles. I spent the holiday in the Dutch Caribbean, and my long trip back to California turned out to be several hund

This was a really good blog post. Places are so much more than how they voted in the last election.

What is it like to have perfect pitch?

Answer: It's actually pretty boring. If you play a note on the piano I can tell you what it is. If you told me to sing the note G I might be off, but if you sang the note G and asked me what it was, I would be able to correctly identify it. Basically nobody cares about this skill except my mother, who thinks I am very talented even though I haven't played music since I was twelve. 

400th Quora answer!  Yay

"@mollyx9120 1 day ago

I’m glad you brought it back around to the dehumanization of children, because that’s what underlies the entire cultural process of infantilization in the first place, and what gives infantilization its meanings in culture. The oppression of children one of the most overlooked issues in U.S. society. My dad always said you can learn a lot about a culture by how it treats it’s children. And we as kids are forced to learn a certain way, forced to perform to certain expectations, forced to suppress and ignore our natural inclinations and needs, and given no platform for autonomy in the world that controls us. So it’s no wonder many of us seek to comfort our inner child when we are grown. This is why children and teens are so effective as activists, because by the time we grow up the determination is starved out of us, and we are tired and burned out. We need youth liberation for effective progress."

Earth

Is it really a strike if you aren't scheduled to work that day?

Volunteering for Portland's School Strike for Climate

Procrastinated on writing this Vocal Media piece about volunteering for the 2019 School Strike for Climate for over 2 years. Published it on the last day of 2022, am sharing it with the outside world on Earth Day 2023.

Grist: 3 expert tips on how to spot bullshit. Very fitting for April Fool's Day