Procrastinated On Writing This Vocal Media Piece About Volunteering For The 2019 School Strike For Climate

Do-Re-Mi -- NBC's The Sound of Music Live cast and you YOU!

Naveed Chowdhury

Notes Toward a Dreampolitik

Right now I am in Los Angeles. I spent the holiday in the Dutch Caribbean, and my long trip back to California turned out to be several hund

This was a really good blog post. Places are so much more than how they voted in the last election.

tl;dr- this is 2 hours late

I don't know why I decided to wake up at 8 am yesterday morning, on a solid 4.5 hours of sleep, to help a bunch of tree huggers dig out blackberry plants and pass heavy buckets of mulch down a hillside park no one gives a rat's tail about anyway, only to find myself still up at 1:30am, frantically scribbling away at my homework that I had the entire weekend to do.

But there is one thing I do know. I know that yesterday was the day where we commemorate a man who changed the lives of millions as he fought tooth and nail to bring justice to an oppressed people, a man who accomplished more with peace and love than most could dream to do with guns, germs and steel, a man whose humility and altruism inspires nobodies like me to run out of my cozy dorm on a chilly Monday morning and help restore an urban forest park. Sure, it's not like uprooting a few invasive species or passing a few buckets of dirt is going to save the planet or anything. But if there's one thing the Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior has shown, it's that giving back is giving back, period, whether it's to your family or friends, community or country. Everything counts, no matter how insignificant, and even though I might never change the world like MLK did, that doesn't stop my from feeling an obligation to honor his memory by giving back, just as he did, with UW Earth Club, volunteering for Earth Core, on this sunny day in Seattle. For lack of something better to say, Happy MLK day everyone.

Confessions

An Offering of Chili Mango

Virtue Signaling to my Superego via Acts of Kindness

New Vocal Media story! (despite the title I promise it has nothing to do with dried fruit) Submitted this to the Remarkably Real Challenge

2013 World Population Map by Seven Billions

Getting the most out of 20 bucks- lunch, jazz music, and a picture with the school mascot!

Confessions

The One About Trader Joe's Chili Spiced Dried Mango

A Reflection on Life, Love, and the Universe

The abridged version of this piece that I hastily submitted to the (No) Regrets Vocal Media challenge

10 min loop of Mateus Asato cover of “You’re Still the One”

Made with Discord’s/Meta’s media embeds feature, iPhone’s record feature, and iMovie. Enjoy! #mateusasato #guitarcover #instramentalcover #yourestilltheone #shaniatwaincover