If you google terms like people pleasers or people pleasing, you’ll find many articles on this topic, including definitions, symptoms, causes and how to stop being a people pleaser. In this post, I don’t intend to repeat what’s already out there. Instead, I’ll do an honest deep dive into my own compulsion to please people….
Don’t underestimate the complexity of children’s emotions Children are supposed to be open books. They cry when they’re in pain. They laugh when they’re excited. Because they reveal their emotions so freely, we assume that they’re simple and transparent beings. This assumption makes us underestimate the complexity of our children’s minds. This boy in my…
The first child in the series, entitled “Tenacity”. I love the self-reassured expression on his face . The poverty he faces does not dim his spirit. That’s what tenacity means.
This is a story about how my father in spirit mended my heart in a dream so I could find my way to a new relationship with my child Credence as they grow and evolve into the person they want to be.
Pottery project entitled, God of Abundance. This piece is designed and made by Roulan Mu.
Our beloved cat, Holmes passed late last year. We miss him a lot. I made a pottery urn to hold his ashes. The urn is made in his image.
I named this piece Ah-Bug because it reminds me of my uncles squatting by the rice paddies in their colourful bandanas, having a smoke. Ah-Bug means uncles in my Hakka language. Just to be clear all my uncles wore paints 🙂
An ancient pottery replica built with water-based white fine grog raku clay.
Marcus Wu leads a team of specialists into the deserts that have been abandoned by humans for centuries in search for an ally to defeat a common enemy whose ambition is to control Earth’s dwindling population and resources.
