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parsnip & star machine
@soowrites.bsky.social
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bilingual(🇬🇧🇰🇷) cellist/writer/lawyer
poetry as contemporaneous reflection, contemplating such topics as expression, sensory inspiration, power and its abuse, community, healing & agency. sometimes painting

I worked on this book: tinyurl.com/3kjjxabv
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A borrowed cello at an open mic

The Swan

#saintsaens #cellomusic #cello #cellist #classicalmusic #theswan #vienna #sootangos #wien
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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“Midsummer’s Night, Göthe”
Next table

#wien #discreet #overheard
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Last night at #Musikverein, Wien —

#cellist #sootangos #flutist #JamesStrauss #classicalmusic #cello #flute
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Lucky. Grateful.

#music #musician #classicalmusic #cello #cellist
A cellist sits with a grateful smile and confidence and reflection while holding a cello.
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I have a cello to play on now !

#wien #classicalmusic #cello
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A practice at insouciance
Practiced insouciance

#face #pretend #play
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Pre- & post- gig

music playing promotes good health.
thankful for my instrument & bow, for all the people involved in making meaningful moments.

next, Vienna!

#cellist #musicallife #life #music #classical #classicalcello
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Back on train, On my way! to dress rehearsal

#cellist #commute
October 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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After before face

Filtered obviously

Alive still

#anotherday #hope
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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what

#toronto #what
October 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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picked up this 2005 book

same relevant arguments today

#books #reading
October 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Portals to happiness

#doggos #simplethings #love
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Eye, lung, ear cleanse —
Find a spot near you where you can just be with quiet nature.

#somatic #nature #recovery #flower #timelinecleanse
A small field of beautiful tiny pale yellow flowers with egg-yolk-yellow middle parts on thin green stems in late autumn sun
September 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Rhizomes
Culture
Focused path
Singular pursuit
Togetherness

#lifejourney #quiet #focus #together #community
It takes an enormous amount of work and support to get very good at something. Tools of course make a difference. Investment of time and money from one’s own self and the supporters. It’s a tunnel with little room for looking beyond — contextualization becomes difficult with such a limited perspective. Such intensity and focus are difficult for many to understand. This is definitely something I struggle with even today between my Korean culture & North American environment and lifestyle. It gets quite noisy to concentrate in an ultra-hustling, hyper-competitive environment, where every move is being watched and judged by everyone in one’s immediate community; on the other hand, an intense pursuit of a singular objective in a culture unused to it can make one feel like the proverbial falling tree in a forest with no one to hear. Both extreme noise and extreme silence (more like white noise) can be deafening. What keeps a pursuit and a practice worthwhile is the discovery of what lies beyond the noise/silence, to truly meet with what lies within. Somehow, the inner world accessed through such challenges is large and infinite, a true liberation, albeit temporary. Once there, and back there again, again and again, you can meet others on a similar journey. A singular quality, a true satisfaction, a reverberant signal reaching long and far — a quiet place, where we, the rhizomes, find out that we were never alone in the tunnel; we were next to each other, and now with the recognition of the individual and collective journeys, we can contribute together to bring nourishment to our collective tree. And so life renews and sustains itself. We are circular breathing, together. I love you and am grateful for your life, which keeps mine alive with such quiet brightness. Big hugs all 💗🙏🌿
September 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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My hot take

#bloop #hottake #everyoneandtheirmother
September 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Glasses are in

#sunday #train #daily #play #ootd #bespectacled
September 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Tea, dog, flower, music, wooden, woven, lovingly carved, judiciously handled;
In this sweet air of shared silence
A place of respect
For you, myself, all, every thing.

#poetry #cafeculture #quiet #books
September 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Alive & with a moment to sit

#dailylife #calm #walks #dogs #colours #walls #outside #hood #urban
September 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Attention cleanse

This is your sign to put the phone down

Walk around, stretch, & grab a glass of water.

& take yourself (and your dog) out to walk

Or kiss your loved one* & go to zz.

*incluidng the ones who’ve left

I love you

I love you

Good night baby

Good night

#petmoms #dog #offline
Wispy white dog with a long snoot and a general horse/fairy-like demeanor looks upon imploringly, seated in a fluffy dog bed next to a wide window letting a flood of natural light in
August 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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outing

#summernight #silkenwindhound #toronto #tdot #dogsoftoronto
July 24, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Something to break up your algo

#ootd #toronto #6ix #dogsoftoronto #silkenwindhound #white #red
July 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Summer
is for
Reading

It’s so hot what
Else are you
Gonna do

(Type, scroll, save, search, like etc…
and
stroll indoors
browsing
books)

#booksky #depression #sociology
July 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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RIP
July 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Uhhh hola

I wore brat colourz
what happened to it?

#ttc #onthestreetcar #tdot #green #summer #red #streetcar #toronto
July 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Mysterious pile of discarded cards encountered

#urban #hood #wut #toronto
July 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM