Hi beautiful beings, glad to see you here.
This is Lingxin (伶欣), most people call me “Tiyo”. I’ve been living on earth for 25 years. We never know how long we’ll be around, so I write and document. My stories mostly concern biodiversity conservation, life and cultures.
I find my soul in the woods.
LATEST STORIES
Invisible Threads: Finding Hope in Tiny Details
“Tiny details that are imperceptible to us define everything.” — W. G. Sebald Often, it is the most intangible yet sensible details that anchor my hope. As I sit in a small public library in the heart of Brussels, I struggle to hold back tears provoked by the final page of a short story. The ending…
Esse est percipi: YoU CrEatE YoUr oWn WorLD.
Turning on the TV, it’s your show. Today is like the beginning of the movie “The Truman Show.” You can insert your name to replace Truman, as you’re truly living in your own film. Every day, we navigate through a world seemingly beyond our control — traffic, people, weather, everything in flux. Living as a full-fledged human…
The Unbeauty of Building a Life You Love
The grass is greener where you water it. When you take care of yourself, you bloom. When you water the essential parts of your life, they grow. Love is the essence of your core. Water it. Ideas flow abundantly in our daily lives. Personally, I’ve noticed my mind often flits from one idea to another,…
Finding the Perfect Balance: How Much is Needed for a Beautiful Life?
At the local grocery store, I stood at the counter with a new wash-tub I’d just purchased from a nearby convenience store. I was eagerly awaiting my first Too-Good-To-Go grocery surprise bag. An older gentleman moved around the vegetable shelves, carefully selecting which vegetables would continually display on the shelves and which would go into…
The beauty of Dāna
Giving is a blessing. During my 5-month-stay in Bangkok, Thailand as an exchange student, I’d love to wake up early and walk along the street outside our student apartment. Food streets were the best places to interact with Thai people and immerse ourselves in Thai culture. A beautiful part of Thai culture that remains vividly…
Unsung, tiny heroes
Hello! If you don’t mind sharing this space with me, I’d like to tell you a story. Don’t worry about the cow dung beneath us—it’s mostly composed of hay and doesn’t have a strong smell. I’m Roofy, a dung beetle. What comes to mind when you think of a dung beetle like me? Well, you…
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