Read. Question. Mingle. Chat.
It's happening tomorrow Bowers Museum, where I will be in conversation with lively #VietnameseAmerican authors to share a window into cultural pressure + prism. Please meet us there. VAALA

📚✨When words spark memories creating community. Please join me tomorrow as we dig into interior lives – live from the Viet Book Fest Bowers Museum organized by VAALA.📚✨

These dogs barter leaves for food. It must have taken time for them to learn human ways as they give & love unconditionally.

This is a @LATimes project that flows so well - with its rhythm, timeliness, topic and teamwork. Big congrats to all. Ian James Albert Lee Maggie Beidelman Erik H-W Robert Meeks Molly Hennessy-Fiske + others. #JournalismMatters

A train driver gave food to this dog at the station. The dog remembered the train, & the engineer brought food regularly. It's worth seeing his joy. Someone cannot make every being happy, but kindness always makes a being happy.

This homeless man carries his trailer & the stray dogs within, a simple image of kindness & compassion. Neither money nor fancy clothes is a sign of a human being. It's the heart, compassion, & kindness.

If you pick one day to buy a print copy of the Los Angeles Times, make it today! Such a brilliant sign made by Samohi enviro students, incredible shot by Dania Maxwell & as always, unmatched #climate coverage from Sammy Roth, ever frank, ever hopeful. Also—subscribe!

witnessing the beauty
of a painful world
through its flowers

Basho

night aesthetics — in art

Arresting. Adventurous. Awesome. The images of Robert Gauthier compel us to stop reading to absorb the way a photojournalist illustrates stories to elevate impact. Congrats to Rob @LATimes: mynewsla.com/orange-county/…

“One of the qualities of being ‘Latino' is that you eventually come to feel the tortured and strange history of the ‘Latino’ past at work inside you, shaping your understanding of the world.”
A book worth reading is a book worth gathering over, as illustrated @LATimesfob Sunday.

Shop owners in Turkey let stray dogs sleep inside during a cold snap.🐶🐾

Kindness matters..🙏❤️