Antipool /  by Mirena Rhee

The purpose of travel is not to get yourself an expensive room or pool and sit in it. In fact, this is absolutely the saddest experience you could possibly get out of your free time.

On the contrary, to really enjoy your time off you need to meet new people and make merry. That could mean gathering around tables with strangers sipping wine and having conversation, it could mean walking with strangers along a path and exchanging your most intimate dreams. It could mean sitting around in a circle and talking about life and everything.

I believe our biggest disease in the US is loneliness and isolation. This is the biggest killer.

And because the news is full of strangers committing heinous acts the media is conditioning us that the human being is some sort of a beast.

We sit on the couches and watch how on television there is a parade of felons.

Forget that, get out of your living room and out of your couch and go meet people and drink some wine.

You know how in these magazines or whatever I don't know,  Instagram? They show lonely people in front of pools, especially Infinity pools and I'm thinking why on earth would you spend the most precious time of your life sitting alone up to your waist in water?

You'd sit there for like an hour or two but what after that?

If you want to experience relaxation in water I highly recommend a Korean bath house. Korean baths are the opposite of the Infinity pool experience in the sense that it is a communal experience but a very relaxing one.

Mom is recovering from a major surgery in the hospital and my brother and I take turns taking care of her. I came up with a basic tenet of life - be devastatingly happy when you're not in pain /  by Mirena Rhee

Today is September 9th 2024. I think I came down with COVID for the past week or so but my mom got positive. Who knows if she got it from me. Who knows if I have covid even.

I went to get some tea and climbing the stairs up through the surgical units in the hospital I could hear people yelping in pain.

There were other people telling them to shut up. And as I was climbing the stairs I decided that a main tenet in life - be happy, outrageously happy, when you're not in pain.

I love space /  by Mirena Rhee

I love space, I love all about the Cosmos and the Universe. It doesn't make me feel small. It is no coincidence I worked on Star Wars as a commercial artist. I wasn't merely loitering around the Presidio falling into the Sarlacc pit.

I dreamed to become an astronaut when I was little. I became a painter instead, next best thing.