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 1
- 10 min
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, 2023
- 12 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 8 min
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, 2018
- 7 min
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, 2018
- 13 min
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, 2017
- 13 min
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, 2017
- 12 min
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 5, 2017
- 9 min
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, 2017
- 17 min
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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2017
- 6 min
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, 2017
- 4 min
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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