happy father's day

I have tried to write this entry three times, to convey how I feel about my dad, who is an amazing, contradictory person with an extraordinary life that I'll never be able to get the complete story for. I love him for not ever saying that I couldn't do anything because I'm a girl, encouraging my writing and art, teaching me to drive, and for being involved with my life. Let's just say that my dad is awesome and no one can ever top his cooking, or his rough generosity.

Happy Father's Day!

Iris Chang

Unbearable sadness of others' pain:

Mourners said that Chang was a person who "felt others' pain intensely" and that she "wouldn't take time off." Another said, "For Iris, no problem was unsolvable." Maybe that's what happened. Iris Chang confronted the reality of evil in our world and died trying to do something about it. I imagine how the voices haunted her nights and trespassed into her days; how each story pulled her in deeper; how she made herself bear the unbearable in order to give words to unfathomable feelings; how she absorbed the suffering of others so that we may learn to be better human beings.