The Glows

I see many lives every day. Swarming, glowing, fading.

These days, there are many problems in the world that we cannot untangle. There are many things that we cannot survive alone. I just wanted to say, life is precious. No matter how long, no matter how fast.

Life is still life.

When a life is gone, there will be an empty chair at the dining table, an empty room in the corner, a piece of heart that’s taken.

It is too cruel and unrespectful to degrade a value of life by occupation, race, religion, or even names. I think, there is no life that is more important than the other. It is our constant learning to always try to empathize with other people and not see things only in our limited view.

In our remaining time of life, let’s just try to toss kindness around and giving support to people who need one.

I hope you all have a nice day, lovers of all kinds.

Posesif (2017)

(sumber)

Menonton film Posesif (2017) di bioskop adalah pengalaman yang tidak diduga. Bagi penggemar film indie tanah air, nama Edwin tentu tidak asing di telinga. A Very Slow Breakfast (2003) adalah film yang saya simpan baik-baik file unduhannya karena menontonnya pertama kali di masa SMA membuat saya seakan meledak. Sarat makna dan bertutur dengan cerdas. Tidak salah kalau dikatakan bahwa saya mendapat panggilan untuk menonton film ini hanya karena nama Edwin. Itupun setelah mengetahui bahwa filmnya dinominasikan di FFI.

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Work In Progress: Color Play

This year is pretty exhausting for me personally. Although I need to be thankful that in our 3rd year, we finally get to bring our products to a brick & mortar store, it’s required a lot of extra works we didn’t anticipate before. It consumed more of our time and energy, dealing with one obstacle to another. We learned quite a lot and gained a lot of knowledge on how the retail world actually works. Though we’re still baby crawl into the dark, at least we already put the first step into it.

As 2018 draws closer, I need to focus on preparing the next year collection. Last year, I was pretty sure and ready with my theme concept. I have a clear vision of the theme and the direction I want to take. We ended up releasing only 1 set of collection, breaking our own promise of releasing 2 sets of collections per year. I think the collection was well-received and I didn’t need to sacrifice myself to create such a mainstream design like the abstract-brush-strokes-watercolor design.

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These Words

The power of internet had brought me to read Neil Gaiman’s essays long before I read one of his books. In an essay called All Books Have Genders, Gaiman wrote an interesting take on how to see and perceive a story. I wonder if my writings have one.

I wrote a lot of fictional stories before, in short passages, or a pretty much longer one. But do they even have common threads, other than written by the same person?

They rarely take a female’s perspective. They talk romance in a non-romantic way. Do they even have feelings?

Do I even have feelings?

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Apakah Belum Cukup?

Saya memandangi wajah tidur Ibu saya malam ini.

Saya membaca banyak sindiran untuk Andien ketika beliau baru melahirkan dan kemudian merawat anaknya. Saya tidak mengerti mengapa saya merasakan sedih ketika melihat banyak Ibu lainnya merasa hidup dan caption foto Andien sangat “menggelikan”, “terlalu sempurna” dan “tidak mencerminkan kesulitan Ibu pada umumnya”. Saya sama sekali tidak mengerti bagaimana sulitnya menjadi ibu dan saya tidak akan berani untuk menduga-menduga.

Tapi, apakah kita harus menjatuhkan orang lain terlebih dahulu untuk merasa menang?

Di lain kesempatan, salah satu teman laki-laki saya bertanya apakah memang persaingan di kalangan Ibu nyata adanya di era modern ini. Satu paham dengan paham lainnya. Pilihan yang satu dengan yang lainnya. Bekerja atau tinggal di rumah. Beberapa teman menuliskan kata working mom ataupun SAHM/WAHM (yang baru saya pahami artinya baru-baru ini) di dalam identitas digitalnya. Saya ingin sekali bertanya. Apakah belum cukup hanya untuk menjadi Ibu saja? Tanpa tambahan lainnya.

Bukankah menjadi Ibu saja sudah sesuatu yang sangat indah?