HeyJaredSusan Kiyo Ito: Reading Writing Living
Writer, teacher, adoptee, biracial Japanese American. Oakland based.
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The Spell of a Writing Residency (opens the original)
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I just completed a brief but spectacular writing residency, and although it was truly a writer’s paradise, I wonder to myself how it is that I am so much more productive here, so much more focused than I am at home. At home, I have an enviably adorable writing studio in my backyard. Unlike here, it even has its own bathroom and small kitchen. It is my dream studio. And yet.It still has too much stuff in it. My stuff. Books, and art supplies, and an overflowing basket of papers and Things to Atte
The Metaphor of Broken Things (opens the original)
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Birthdays are complicated for adopted people. Some choose to ignore them (or try to), others throw big bashes that declare, I AM HERE. For the most part, I lead a contented life in which I am fully aware of life’s many blessings. So many people who love me and whom I love. A beautiful family. Material comforts. Living in a beautiful place with wonderful communities. But in August, my birthday month, complicated feelings around my own birth arise. The day that I was born = the day that I was left
People > Sightseeing (opens the original)
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I just returned from over two months of traveling, through Japan and soon after, the UK and Ireland. And I managed to miss so many sites and attractions. I didn’t visit any shrines or temples in Tokyo or Kyoto (this time), I didn’t see Stonehenge or Westminster Abbey or the Globe Theater. How could I have traveled so far and “seen” so little?For both trips, I had official business to attend to. In Japan, I was leading a “Dialogue” for students and teaching an intensive writing class for a month.
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