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Good buy Greek deli

09 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Uncategorized

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business, change, childhood, food, growing up, life, memory, migrant, migration, nostalgia, prose, writer, writing

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There’s something incredibly comforting about Greek delis—the grubbier a deli is, the more homely I find it. This has everything to do with The Greek Deli being a permanent fixture of my Inner West upbringing and also says everything about mine being a creature of habit, in other words a lamenter of change. Continue reading →

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Youth

02 Thursday Feb 2017

Posted by Betty Zhang in Opinion, Petit Passages

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change, empowerment, english, inspiration, literature, Opinion, poem, poet, prose, writer, writing, youth

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Youth is vitality, excess collagen, fluids and oil from our pores. Our restlessness feels edgeless like the galaxy, scary and exciting like exploding stars, new like unopened books.

Youth is arrogance—we act as if we invented sex, and mock the old for their weary bones. But they were once young like us and was it not from them you and I and our parents sprang?

Youth is rage, against our predecessors’ norms, against our parents’ wishes, against the preachers and teachers who know not what it is to be young today no more than theirs did, against our own better judgement.

Youth is power: it is power harnessed from our vitality, arrogance, and rage. We can change the future because it is ours—because, if not us, who?

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