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有人走了,有人来了

          Prudence, 我与她没有面对面见过。从认识到给她写送别信,不到两个月的时间。而她,是那样感动与激励过我。她走了,也许会有其他人来。可是,她是在我生命里留下印记的人。          学校放假那天,我给Prudence 写了一封感谢信,感谢她不辞劳苦地帮我改简历和Cover Letter, 仔细到标点符号和多了一个空格。这一生,没有人曾这样尽心尽力地帮过我。也许是,我一直保持着无须帮助的淡定,——不是淡定,是缺乏勇气面对被拒绝。她走了,也许某一天会再次相聚,也可能今生不再遇见。有些投缘的人,总是聚散匆匆。而有些认识十年只有冷漠疏远的人,却可能长久面对。            Prudence 是学院的职业发展顾问。听Mariana说过几次后,鼓起勇气写邮件给她,想和她聊聊未来的职业发展,是不是符合加拿大文化?我预计她会给我几条宏观建议,比如:去读个书,或转行做别的。我没有奢望她帮我改简历。即使那是她的工作,在我的经验里,也大多是给一些原则和方向,最终还是得自己去做的。但她的回馈大大超出我的预期。我们来来回回互通邮件有10次,她把我的简历改到了第7版,cover letter改到了第6版,还包括4次的视频会谈,预约的是半个小时,结果每次都花了1个小时才结束。            Prudence 收到我的信后,就和我预约第一次视频会谈。我和她谈了我的初步想法,也和她征询意见:就加拿大的劳动力市场,我能做什么? 她说,第一个问题,应该是你想干什么? 市场行情变化莫测,就是很小众的市场,如果你做的足够专业,也没有问题。她主动提出我把简历发给她看。发给她之前,我花了好几天时间修改,而这份简历,是前年让朋友替我仔细看过的。我自己以为,应该不会有很大问题。她收到简历后,从结构到格式,提出了十几个问题,非常仔细。她很严肃地说,在没有看到你之前,你的简历就代表了你这个人,任何一个微小的瑕疵都足以让你失去面试的机会。然后,我继续改,如此来回改过了7版,然后继续改cover letter. 其中有几次回复邮件,都是晚上七八点钟。要知道,加拿大文...

someone is going, someone is coming

         I am sad to hear Prudence Swaan will leave the college. She is so kind and patient to help me,   meticulous, agreeable, and inspiring.                                    Someone is going, someone is coming                          In the long journey, we meet and depart                          I cannot have her retention, reluctant to see them off                          But I have nothing to do with that                         Dear friends, may you prosper in the front way                           Welcome everywhere, have a good time ...

When reading, I am living awake.

   ‘Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.’ – Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo, 5 August 1881            So easily I lose in the tiresomeness of routine tasks,            Often forget to stop to figure out where I am going.            One day slides swiftly after  yesterday,            It is entangled in the chores of trifles slothfully.            I am not able to slow down my steps,            Due to my frightening of the jungle society.                     When I open a book,            Rainer Maria Rilke or Dickinson Emily,           Just as ...

The time of waiting someone

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                The time of  waiting someone is unworthy                  Because the one who will come appears  in due time                  While the one who will not come disappear  in due time                   A breeze whispering without someone waiting                        A flower blooming without someone urging                   A  cloud floating without someone caring                 The comer will come                   The goer will go                  No need to wait for                  No need to lon...

Freedom of Conciousness

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June 11, New challenges for everyday

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             Every day has its new challenges, I am glad to face with a gentle loving heart, with calm and courage, hiding in the tabernacle of my Lord.             

Sojourning in this life

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         "I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were." -- Psalm 39:12                     I am always seeking,                                          Seeking what I do not know.                                       So I have always being sojourned ,                     From a city to another.                     I can not sing a song of sojourner,                     For my lyre was dumb,                                          While my so...