Veronica Chung

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About Veronica Chung

My work is a little bit of Everything and doing Nothing at all. It is Magical and Mundane. Invisible and Impactful. Exhausting and Exhilarating. My work is being open and willing to change careers or titles 100 more times. To not let my job define who I am, but I who define my work. To do what I love and love what I do. To let my soul lead the way. My work is investing in people. To listen to people as if every word they say is gold, finding the heart of their stories. To drop whatever I'm doing to have meaningful connections with strangers that sometimes result in boba, meals, or hugs. To share in order to inspire. My work is to never stop learning. To be proactive and invest in my growth and development. To have more than 25 hobbies, always collecting more, and being okay with never mastering any of them. My work is to stop to smell/look up/arrange/paint the flowers. To pay attention when my friend said she finds beauty in the decayed ones and then make it my truth. My work is noticing the little things like a picture frame that is hanging crooked by 3 cm, a strand of hair out of place, or a disheveled bookshelf needing to be organized. My work is to reconnect my Mind, Body, Soul. To teach my Mind kindness and compassion toward my Body. To teach my Body how to live in alignment, instead of resistance. To teach my Soul that not everything we create is for everyone. My work is to heal. Completely and Permanently. To chase down the “Why’s” and then the “How’s.” To work with the best healers that come my way and to become my own healer. To enjoy the present moment because it's all we have. My work is filling up journals with content that will never be published and notebooks that may have a chance if edited. To never let the callous on my right ring finger disappear. To be the one who dubbed myself with titles like, “Writer” and “Memorist” despite being unpublished and allowing only one person to read my memoir in its entirety. My work is to be Love. Be Gratitude. Be Nourished. To just Be. My work is my testament.(Inspired by A. Papatya Bucak’s essay, “An Address to My Fellow Faculty who Have Asked Me to Speak about My Work")