Author: Lem Usita
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Where I Come From
It’s been a few weeks since I got back from the Philippines. I am processing through all the stories and the things that I got to see and experience while I was there. I got to spend time in my dad’s hometown. Well, you can’t really call it a town.…
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Family Lore
Do you know your Family Lore? I know some of it. I just know the stories that I’ve heard in passing, but I am going to try and record the stories. I want to know where I come from. I want to know my Family Lore. I want to record…
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When No One’s Looking
Recently, a friend asked me if I had ever heard the phrase, “Who you are when no one’s looking.” The idea is that you are your most true self when no one is looking. It’s like all of a sudden – when it’s private – that you are magically…
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Expert in Other Worlds
I heard this line somewhere. I think it was some tv show, and I wrote it down weeks ago. I’m just getting around to writing it – oddly enough – while Star Wars 3 is on the tv. You see. I know people that are such Experts in Other Worlds,…
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Metabolize Your Experience
I read that phrase this morning and just connected with it somehow. There is a place in your experience that sits in between comfortable and lazy on the one side; with anxious and uneasy on the other side. There is this space in between those 2 sides where you should…
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Textually Promiscuous
I text alot. I have had friends tell me that I text them more than anyone else that they know, but no matter how much you think I text, there’s someone that’s going to be more Textually Promiscuous than I. tr.v. text·ed, text·ing, texts 1. To send a text message to: She texted me…
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Skinny Fat
Yes, that’s a thing. If there was ever an identity that you could put on, this is one of them. I had never heard of it till about a week ago (just haven’t finished the post). You can Google it. Skinny Fat is an identity that someone created to describe…
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Your Internet is not Getting Slower
……..you’re becoming more impatient. This blog is about identity – with a focus on “becoming.” Then there’s this underlying current of how technology or new media has an impact on how we are “becoming.” I was watching a news segment this and there was a commercial about how slow our…
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What I Want to Be
I write about what I want to be. You might read some of my stuff and think that I speak out of experience – and for the most part, I write about things that I have seen and experience. More often then not, I’m a writing about what I want…
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What You Don’t Know about Social Media
……..can really rile you up. Just go to a presentation about Social Media and you’ll see what I mean. rile (rl) tr.v. riled, ril·ing, riles 1. To stir to anger. See Synonyms at annoy. 2. To stir up (liquid); roil. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rile I don’t typically focus on writing about social media. I am more interested in the identity…
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Imitate Others in Order to Develop Your Identity
I talk to quite a few people who are in the process of figuring out their identity. They want to work on it, but they don’t know how. Figuring out identity is hard work. Identity work is deep, hard work. It’s actually quite okay to imitate in order to develop…
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