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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10d

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

www.chosun.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 18h

Kept it simple with pork and cabbage for this batch (I would usually add chives, shrimp, mushrooms etc)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to post a #中秋 poem. But this year the eccentrically-shaped dumplings made by cheerful frosh in my kitchen, were my poems.

(And every single 🥟 held up!)

I’m holding a pan of dumplings of various shapes wrapped by my students

Part of my class came over to wrap dumplings - group photo of Duke freshmen

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

"I feel no sense of caution or restraint, nor do I have any doubts, finally. Something has come full circle. I commit the same errors as in the past but they are no longer errors. There is only beauty, passion, desire."

-Annie Ernaux, "Getting Lost" (tr. A. Strayer)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

maybe Paterson?

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

it's a lovely film, not great nor profound and a bit sentimental - but with wonderful young actors and a very good Robin Williams. And it's a film of persuasion for the non-poets, so not surprised that you didn't see it.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

Seen it (of course)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

this thread makes me realize how much i have always happily embraced the zeitgeist - even as a teen in taiwan, i have seen/read/played all of the movies/books/games that folks below (presumably growing up in the west) have not

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

These elections are so important, Durham! Please make a plan to vote during the current primary and then the (very quick) general election.

Kayla @bookschaosnart.bsky.social · 5d

Friendly reminder to Durham peeps there’s a primary election on October 7th (early voting now) and then full local elections in November.

I know a lot of people in the feed are fed up with electeds but the local ones are the ones that actually matter for things like roads schools etc.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

fantastic!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 6d

I have been younger in October /
than in all the months of spring

-W.S. Merwin, who understands (we share a birthday — the last day of September)

“The Love for October”
#everynightapoem #October1st

have been younger in October /
than in all the months of spring

-W.S. Merwin, who understands

“The Love for October”
#everynightapoem #October1st

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 5d

The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

-John Berger,
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”
(October 2004)
I
The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

(Chinese proverb)

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

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Some Melodious Plot @somemelodiousplot.bsky.social · 3d

‘I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring’.

Me too! Arriving at the end of September, all ready for the nights closing in.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 6d

I have been younger in October /
than in all the months of spring

-W.S. Merwin, who understands (we share a birthday — the last day of September)

“The Love for October”
#everynightapoem #October1st

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gilly diviani @ruagaire.bsky.social · 3d

the wind was busy last night

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Tomasz Śniedziewski @tsniedziewski.bsky.social · 4d

Kaohsiung, September 2025

📷: Contax T2
🎞️: Kodak Tmax 100 (exp. 2000)

#AnaloguePhotography

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

A wonderful companion resource site created by our research librarians Matthew Hayes and Adhitya Dhanapal, on the Immigration Act of 1965 and its legacies
sites.duke.edu/aadssymposium/

Duke AADS Symposium

sites.duke.edu

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

Today and tomorrow: "Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act" at Duke and UNC - featured speakers include Madeline Hsu, Mae Ngai, and Pawan Dhingra - join us if you're in town!
asianamericanstudies.duke.edu/conferences/...

Poster for Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act, Duke University Asian American Diaspora Studies Program

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

A wonderful companion resource site created by our research librarians Matthew Hayes and Adhitya Dhanapal, on the Immigration Act of 1965 and its legacies
sites.duke.edu/aadssymposium/

Duke AADS Symposium

sites.duke.edu

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

Today and tomorrow: "Six Decades Later: Legacies of the 1965 Immigration Act" at Duke and UNC - featured speakers include Madeline Hsu, Mae Ngai, and Pawan Dhingra - join us if you're in town!
asianamericanstudies.duke.edu/conferences/...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being.

It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”

Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

Safe travels to Professor Jonathan Lear, whose words and thoughts transported so many of us.

His radical hope remains.

Photo of Jonathan Lear in glasses

Jonathan Lear
1948 - 2025
Philosopher, psychoanalyst, teacher
Image ht harvard up

"It is not only good but wondrous that there should be mourning [...]
In response to loss, we make meaning: re-creating in memory and imagination what we have lost and reanimating forms of life that might otherwise disappear."
—Jonathan Lear
Imagining the End
Image via harvard up

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 4d

That entire week, I was in awe of how seriously he took Freud as a way to think through our lives, and how seriously he took every student in the class. 2/2

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Matthew Levay @matthewlevay.bsky.social · 4d

Sad to see this news, belatedly. I was lucky to attend a week-long seminar with Lear as a graduate student, and he was incredibly kind despite (or perhaps because of) how green I was. 1/2

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11d

Safe travels to Professor Jonathan Lear, whose words and thoughts transported so many of us.

His radical hope remains.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 5d

The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

-John Berger,
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 5d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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