Eden Project伊甸園計畫🌿
——從廢棄礦坑變成一種新生活態度。

自2001 開幕以來，Eden project儼然成為英國康沃爾Cornwall地區必訪景點之一。以泡泡外型著名，挑戰最大的跨距結構，為世界上最大的溫室greenhouse，且收集了幾乎全球的植物。

其設計發想源自Arthur Conan Doyle的小說The Lost world(失落的世界)，講述世界上某個地方失去了順化的民族/空間，提醒人類應尊重未來能留給我們的一切。
You shakily treat abundance with respect the future remain is to make.

一座礦場開採殆盡、所有機械停止運轉後，如何修復對環境的影響，並賦予其新意發展，是一項困難的規劃。

Eden project是一個指標性成功案例，擁有教育性質的植栽/生態景觀，也提出「現代烏托邦」的想法——好似模擬人類移居其他星球的想像。

Photo credit: (second one) https://www.edenproject.com/

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I’ve decided to start writing blogs here every once in a while, hopefully 2-3 times a week. But let’s see if I can keep this up. Let’s start here.

It’s truly amazing where life has taken me in my music career and in life, but it has never been an easy road, and it’s never an easy road for any one of us. I’ve seen how some singer friends hustle, and I’ve seen singer friends get lucky, but working hard has always been the prerequisite to longevity in this field, and talent can come in such different forms. That’s what I’ve seen, and what I find inspiring. The unspoken social hierarchy is one thing, but truly everyone is uniquely talented in their own ways- there’s no lesser or more, just different; and there’s no better or worse, it’s just about effort. And, well, timing, and luck.

For me, I never really fully understood the whole concept of fame, but fan support and individual messages motivated me because it made me feel connected to a bigger purpose. Our music gave hope, comfort, like a friend that knows your heart. For a long time, it felt like it was meant to be. But before R&K, before all that, it was, as it is for most people, just a hobby that was also my self-therapy. My songs have always been a personal thing, a diary entry, if you will, that just gave my own heart comfort. My singing and playing was genuinely just an emotional outlet after stressful days of work, but I took my work with the special needs children very seriously.

I remember one time, after going through a bad long distance breakup over the phone, and with tears just welled up in my eyes, I shakily pressed the doorbell to go to work trying to swallow the emotions back into my stomach. Yes, I used to go up to every apartment of my clients, all across Hong Kong, 3+ hours per session, 11 sessions a week, not including data organizing, prepping, report writing, and chatting to their families, and other meetings. I waited outside at the apartment door of the child that I was the therapist for, and when the swung open, I let out the brightest smile to conceal my tears, but after a while, the child actually made me forget about the emotional pain inside of me; and I was the most cheerful and energetic I’ve ever been. I genuinely cared so much for every child I was the therapist for, even when they sometimes are uncontrollably upset, screaming, kicking, sometimes for the entire session of 3 hours. (Gosh I admire their cardio endurance sometimes.) I have so much admiration for my colleagues who shared my struggles, frustrations, patience, and heart for these children, and a lot of them still do so till today. I still have high regards for their work, because I know it’s not easy. And I’m so happy that one of them finally had the courage and determination to open their own center finally, after talking about it for so many years. 🙂 (Do check them out, if you are curious about their service. Ascend HK 悦晴教育及發展中心)

I wish that truly one day, I could use my platform to share little stories to the world, whether it’s about the kids I’ve taught, little unspoken struggles and hardships during my career, etc.

During difficult times like these, when everything feels kind of pointless and hopeless for most of us, and when everything feels stagnant, and when we, R&K, for whatever reason, cannot share our new song yet (lol. hai. 🤷🏻‍♀️). But I’m choosing to focus on the parts of my life where I can control. So I just want to share little stories, or thoughts inside my head, because I never really wanted to lose touch with everyone, I guess I just didn’t really know what to say. I just wanna say - it has been emotionally difficult for me also. I’m with you.

But as someone with a little bit of a platform with some number of followers, I want to use it somehow for something meaningful, to spread stories of special needs families’ unconditional love for their children and how it inspires me, stories of struggles and hopes, stories of lessons learned, stories of bridges burned, stories of personal evolution. Some off-camera stuff.

So, excuse my new version of self-therapy. Till the next post. In the mean time, choose love, and bring light. I love you guys.

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I wanted the relationship to work so badly that I ignored the inner voice that told me it wouldn’t.

I was so afraid of my aloneness that I lied to myself that I was happy.

I didn’t dare to accept the truth that I was dying in that relationship. Within the shadow of his rage and control and jealousy, the sunflower that was me could not be alive.

The acceptance of that truth - bitter and frightening as it was - changed everything.

Sometimes, the only thing we need to set ourselves free is to accept the truth.

The truth is the crack that breaks the damp open, letting the gushing river carry us - once and for all - away from the place that's not meant for us to the place we truly belong.

That night, the river carried me away like that. River never flows backward, and I never came back again.

From that night, slowly and shakily, I started moving forward. I began to learn how to be a complete woman, with or without a man.

It was not breaking up.

It was breaking free.

Step by step, the sunflower reaches towards the sun.

Loving herself enough to refuse to stay in the shadow.

🌻If you need a way out, may you meet me on the journey of breaking free. Let me help you milenanguyen.com/coaching/