By Tran Mai Anh Don’t leave an empty space in your heart. Sometimes saying “thank you” seems inadequate, especially after the days when my mother and I received so much love. Many people sent messages, shared articles, and recalled the long journey Thiện Nhân and his family traveled. Every word touched my heart deeply. I […]
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Christmas, like Vietnamese Tết, is a time to celebrate family. In the culture of Vietnam, there is nothing more important. We’ve all seen how, in modern times, our family values have come under threat. The closeness and joy we once celebrated every holiday has lost some of its power, as we watch both parents and
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The feeling of holding a book in your hand that has your picture on the cover is difficult to put into words. It’s something about the weight of the paper, lined with beautifully-formatted text that’s all about you – words that say what you want to say, that express your thoughts and your ideas. It’s
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Nothing shows the depth of your respect, admiration, or love than the act of having a person’s life written and commemorated in everlasting text through the publication of a special book. To have a book written about someone important to you is to give them a legacy and a story that can last forever—it is
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When I switched on social media this morning and checked my messages, I must have seen 20 ads. Someone got paid to expose me to that advertising. When those ads were displayed on my screen, the impressions counted towards someone’s KPIs for that month. I didn’t read them. I didn’t pay any attention to them
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Think for a moment about the billions of lives that were lived before ours – the lives of our people, the lives of our ancestors, each of them unique, each of them the story of one human soul set against the backdrop of a certain time and a certain place. Each of those people once
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If you’ve ever thought about the future, you may wonder what things will be like after you’ve gone and whether or not you’ll be remembered. Perhaps you’ve led an ordinary life, or perhaps you’ve achieved extraordinary things—but regardless of how you’ve lived, one thing’s for certain: almost everything you’ve lived for will one day be
