Each book on every shelf has a story to tell. Should I listen to the dozens
of stories awaiting to be recounted? Or should I self off those books as quickly
as half.com can snap them up?

I can't seem to let go of A
Guide to Feynman Diagrams in the Many-Body Problem or Mass
Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition. Some books (such
as a copy of The
Best American Essays 1996 (Serial)) actually belong to friends with whom
I've more or less lost touch. And in the desire to master both Mandarin and
Cantonese Chinese (i.e., to Read
and Write Chinese) in my copious free time, I purchased Concise
English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary and Let's Talk Cantonese.

What
Should I Do with My Life? My goal is still Creating
a Life Worth Living. If only I could follow those simple formulae: Do
What You Are and
Live the Life You Love by Getting
What You Came for .

I'd like to have it all, I suppose. I want to experience The
Joy of Work that emanate from The
Effective Executive leaders all around me. Love would be wonderful too.
However, as one of those Singles
at the Crossroads, struggling with Boundaries
in Dating, I'm comforted that at least my would-be lovers are Caring
Enough to Confront me by saying, "I
Only Say This Because I Love You."

Maybe I don't need the love of a good woman. I just need to love humanity at
large. All I have to do is to start Making
Room in my heart, eating enough Bread
for the Journey. But as it ought to say in The
Activist's Handbook, we must work Peer-to-Peer
to spread what must be My
Only Comfort (or is that Wishful
Thinking?), that the Good
News About Injustice is that there will always be work for us do-gooders,
regardless of attempts at any Bridge to Understanding.

In the end, Finding
Faith in God and practicing our faith in the great God
in the Dark will answer the cry of the heart, "Please
Understand Me!" and that refrain, "Please
Understand Me II!"

Don't forget How
to Read Slowly. For you'll see that what started as an attempt to poetry
ended up to be Something
Like an Autobiography, full of Good
Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste.