Archive (Page 2) • Letter's from Aleks • Buttondown

The smell of sunscreen

The smell of sunscreen Lawn damp from the garden hose Now it is summer As Yuling, Amelia, and I fully relax into the heat of the summer, certain familiar...

[Haiku] Motion/Stillness

Leaves dance in the wind. In motion, there is stillness; In stillness, motion.

When you try to see the world, beyond your front door

I have this thing where once I start a book I refuse to let it beat me. I don’t even remember when I started Manual of Insight by Mahasi Sayadaw, but it took...

I wrote a poem for Amelia: The sun still rises Applesauce all over your face This is where we are The new normal has started to feel...normal. We are all...

Life under self-isolation

There is a tree with pink blossoms outside our kitchen window. In the mornings, when I am cooking oatmeal and tidying up the kitchen, the rising sun is just...

[Haiku] Viruses and Blossoms

A virus outside Mingling with the pink blossoms We wait for the spring

Putting it in a box

February 28, 2020

(These stories will probably lag the events they're based off of for a bit longer.) December 20th, 2019 was my last day at Amazon. I had worked there for 9...

Happy Chinese New Year

January 24, 2020

Any kind of internet-based journal, be it a blog, newsletter, or twitter account, would not be complete without at least one post apologising for not writing...