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This year

September 25, 2020 The Torch Comments 1 comment

It’s late January of 2020. Despite the unrelenting Midwestern snow and bleak days punctuated by an impenetrable gray sky, things are looking bright for me. I’m coming off an academically successful semester, have quickly ascended the ranks of my university’s newspaper, and have just landed an editorial internship with a publisher in Minneapolis. The seemingly endless stream of success drives me forward with quiet intensity. Within the next few weeks, I’m easily handling 18 credits, 20 hours of work a…

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The wait

September 25, 2020 The Torch Comments 1 comment

It’s a beautiful day, I’m at the park enjoying my fifteen minutes in between online classes. I look at the fish in the pond nearby, I pay attention to the birds that never stop chirping, I watch other people and imagine what their life is like. I’m waiting. As Jason Farman explores in Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World. Waiting, as represented by silences, gaps, and distance, allows us the capacity to imagine…

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Yin Yang: An expression of contrast

September 16, 2020 The Torch Comments 2 comments

From being near-strangers, Michael and Aina have discovered a version of their own Yin to Yang within each other. Witness the product of their conversations in the form of a narrative with Michael as Yin and Aina as Yang.

Different Versions of the Same Story

September 11, 2020 The Torch Comments 2 comments

Have you been lucky enough to have had someone share a similar experience with you? Like you’re in a conversation talking about your personal experience in a situation, and then the other person goes “oh yeah, I can totally relate!”, and then goes ahead to share their own experience in the same context. How did you feel at that moment? It brought you close right? It made the conversation more meaningful, and the bond between both persons much stronger than…

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Walk past the past

August 31, 2020 The Torch Comments 0 Comment

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Theresa This morning when I got up, I got a weird insight that really caught me massively off guard after realising I had been meditating all wrong; not in terms of method but more like in terms of the mental picture that I create in my head. So basically, I like to connect my meditation sessions to past and future selves and my image…

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