Meditation Spotlight: Andrew Yuan Q&A
By MAX MANTEL
Q: Describe briefly what your meditation was about.
A: My meditation is a synthesis of my family’s past historical and geographical displacement, coupled with their lessons on survival inherited by me.
Q: Where did the inspiration for your meditation come from?
A: I don’t think I intentionally was inspired by one particular piece of writing, but I was thinking of some literary works while I was creating/perhaps subconsciously drew upon the motifs in these pieces: Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica Lee, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Vergil’s Aeneid, Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, and Victoria Chang’s poetry.
Q: How was the writing process for your meditation?
A: I didn’t stress out that much over my med because my senior fall English teacher Ms. Woodard gave us a lot of advice and helpful past meditation examples that I really enjoyed reading. Also, our readings for that term were meditative and inward-looking as well as application to my own med topic.
Q: What do you hope people take away?
A: I would say my med creation process was pretty smooth and it came out together in one piece — I’m saying that because my med was trying to piece together different periods of my family history scattered across different countries as well.
Q: Any other comments?
A: I hope people just enjoyed my piece and got to know me a little better!
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