Michael BL on Clubhouse

Bio

😎 INFP polyglot in Oregon, USA, interested in:
🌍 International people, global nomads, 3rd culture kids and people who have crossed several cultures in life or work
🧠 Mental health advocacy
🧘🏻‍♂️ Spirituality, wisdom
🤡 Punnology, language

Grew up in Asia & UK, moved to US for college and work, on east coast, then west coast

Work experience: counseling center operations; university administration; visa decisions for government; corporate I.T.; recruitment/placement of volunteers.

🌍 Traveled 🇸🇬🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇯🇵🇲🇫🇲🇾🇮🇪🇩🇴🇲🇨🇨🇳

🧠 Practicing mindfulness, gratefulness, re-framing

🗣 French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese (skoshi)

🐦 Bird and nature photographer, thalassophile and lover of waterfalls, hiking, and cycling

❤ Music
🎶 Baritone/tenor 2, sang in several choirs

🧘‍♂️Yoga practitioner 15 yrs

🙏🏻 Seeker of Spirit and Wisdom. ~ Quaerens quod realis est ~ "Religion for me is the search for the real and the effort to approximate one's life to it"

💞 "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion" - Dalai Lama

🏄‍♀️"Between the stimulus and the response there is a space, and in this space lies our power and our freedom" - Viktor Frankl

🦸‍♂️"Never confuse what you are offered with what you are worth" - Peter Voogd

🌎"Mes parents étaient espagnol. Pour les Français, on était des Arabes, et maintenant, pour les Arabes, on est des Français." - Loin des Hommes, movie set in 1954 during the Algerian War, based on Albert Camus' story "The Guest"

🏠The Guest House, by Rumi:

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.