I'm Taking Myself Seriously Enough to Open an Online Art Shop
On Friday, Feburary 16, I am opening an art shop here on my website. There will be prints (framed? unframed? your choice!), tote bags,...
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akemiartivist
Jan 110 min read
My Artist Quest in 2023: Expectations vs Reality
As 2023 began, I was flying high. My band, Mystic Tiger, had just performed an incredible single release concert for our biggest audience...
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akemiartivist
Jan 1, 202312 min read
Akemi Gets Fired from a Nonprofit Yet Again and Faces ~300 Mental & Emotional Blocks in her Quest to Become a True Artist
I started 2022 with a bang, getting fired from a non-profit organization for the third time. At this point, the experience felt so...
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akemiartivist
Apr 16, 20218 min read
My Pandemic Experience
In the beginning it was playing DDR in my friends’ living room and making smoothies and talking about the surrealness of what was...
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akemiartivist
Jul 12, 20203 min read
Thirty
I am thirty years old today, which seemed like as good an opportunity as any to finally make a post again. It’s been a long time since my...
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akemiartivist
Jan 8, 20198 min read
Death of a Loved One and my Artist Vow
I haven’t written anything on this blog for the past six months, despite the fact that I declared to everyone in my last post I’d be...
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akemiartivist
Jul 12, 20187 min read
Kelly Gets Fired Again, Beats Her Prehistoric Social Anxiety Monster and Has a New Revelation
It is official: I am solidly in my late twenties. These days, it seems like all the Facebook announcements of my fellow...
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akemiartivist
Jan 25, 201813 min read
From Separation to Reunion: How Travel, Nature, Connection and Intuition Helped Me Find a More Beautiful World
When I was a kid, I remember feeling quite skeptical of the concept of “growing up”. I remember learning about what happens after college...
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akemiartivist
Nov 12, 201713 min read
Spontaneous Outbursts of Song, Jeepney Adventures, and Following Your Heart: My Month in the Philippines
After a month of traveling the Philippines, I wanted to write something that attempts to capture a bit of what this adventure has been...
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akemiartivist
Oct 11, 201712 min read
What I Learned From 4 Days of Meditation at a Monastery in Thailand
If you had told my teenage self that in ten years, given the option of going literally anywhere in the world and doing anything I would...
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akemiartivist
Oct 4, 20179 min read
Magic Mushrooms in Pai: That One Time I Lost My Individual Identity And Became One With the Universe
Traveling for an extended period of time by yourself without a set plan is like the ultimate experiment in following your intuition....
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akemiartivist
Sep 27, 201717 min read
2 Weeks of Mindful Living (and Mosquitoes) in a Northeast Thailand Forest
So I’ve just emerged from 13 days in a forest in Northeast Thailand with 30 people around the world at the Mindfulness Project, a unique...
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akemiartivist
Sep 10, 20173 min read
My Travel Journey Intentions
My solo travel adventure has officially begun, and I figured I should commemorate this moment with a blog post so you all know I am...
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akemiartivist
Aug 3, 20176 min read
From Anxiety to Intuition: Why I’m Leaving LA to Travel Southeast Asia
Unemployment is a fascinating state of being. It’s taboo, really: in our society, it it seen as improper to exist as a jobless person for...
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akemiartivist
Jul 12, 20174 min read
Kelly Gets Fired, Has an Identity Crisis and Almost Joins an Anti-Capitalist Experimental Rock Opera
I’ve been suspecting for a while now that I may not be cut out to be a very professional adult. This suspicion was confirmed two weeks...
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