💗🚀Poem: Loving Students, Teaching at a University, and Finding My Purpose💗🚀 🎎🥋🙏🏾🐾🐱🌸🌱😎🎈🎎🥋 🙏🏾🐾

It starts with love . . . and finding your passion . . . I suffer from PTSD, for I have seen things on the streets of Los Angeles that no human should ever see: Hell, for I have lived in poverty and once gave up hope, but I never gave up my dream to help others. …. This is my story . .

“An intelligent mind is one which is constantly learning,” -Bruce Lee

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Poem: The Power of the Passion for Pedagogy

having no desire to learn. . .

struggling in school, fighting to survive. . .

creating my own gang, only to scare others away…

learnings way to find joy.. ..

disliking learning nothing at school. . .

studying at the UCLA library, reseaching more. . .

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finding a new way . . .

loving Bruce Lee by praciting more. . .

creating a fight club to learn martial arts . . .

joining gymnastics and becoming a great competitor. . .

reading daily, . . .

studying nightly, more and more . . .

practicing always, trying to learn about life. .

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becoming a professor. . .

running a writing program as the director. . .

having over 60 part time instructors under my curriculum . .

overseeing a writing lab and an online version,

helping students writer. . .

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Thank you for reading this. . When my Korean mother died of cancer at a young age, I felt my life had been a failure.

I ran her businesses and all of them failed because of her death.

So I earned an MA and PhD in her memory.

Thank you mother. I am crying writing this. I had no one to invited to my graduation, so I didn't have one. I thought of you, and I still do. I miss you.

Rest in Peace. . . Your son became a professor, so valued in Korea, where I was born.