https://www.danielwriter.net/greeting daily 1.0 2025-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1588755256481-BQZTKVKS57L7HSG2RGVF/80871799_10157035127942297_5955644485789548544_n.jpg Greeting - Some time in the past, while not watching a baseball game*, I had the thought of writing a novel.. And so I did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1588756125112-D25LNHX4BROG0ZI1VRGB/75477050_2558816821012984_4630504031489568557_n.jpg Greeting - It was launched at the last Singapore Writer’s Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1591343440999-9SWZXBQBP2YVK1MHQZ3G/Screenshot+2020-06-05+at+4.04.00+PM.png Greeting - An Interview with Esquire ESQ: Fate is one of the anchor themes of The Impermanence of Lilies. So, do you believe in resigning to fate or going against it? Why? Daniel Yeo: The scientific part of me knows that nothing occurs out of nothing, and that everything is a result of something else. Which would mean that, possibly, dismally, that none of our actions and thoughts are truly of our own will. However, that would also mean, remarkably, that we are linked, inextricably, to anything and everything that has come before. In touch, still, with the very first human or living thing that has walked the earth. And that there is a single everlasting thread that ties us all together. Think back, to the Big Bang. If energy does not come into existence out of no other form of energy, then, every form of energy or force today, is linked back, through countless millennia, to that original source of energy, the Big Bang. If you and I were to talk, we would simply be exchanging echoes of that original sound. The romantic part of me knows the thoughts and ideas in my mind, and much as I can imagine, I cannot imagine them being mere equations, the simple results of things put together, matter of fact. I cannot accept that the feeling we call love is the result of evolutionary selection, of pheromones and dopamine, of fixed sequences of neurons firing in my brain, drawing me to a person I thought I chose. Is there inevitable fate? Or is there unanswerable free will? I do not have the answer. But such questions sometimes lead us down some paths that might bring us somewhere we never knew. Full Interview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1596619743740-438F1PEJER001V1EH294/Screenshot+2020-08-05+at+3.16.26+PM.png Greeting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1596619796827-H7P1ALLIMVIS0H3CJ02C/Screenshot+2020-08-05+at+3.15.40+PM.png Greeting https://www.danielwriter.net/writing daily 0.75 2020-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1589776829622-Q1AHEGUN0LWB1AP170WA/96845197_2588279591393466_9169155393367048192_o.jpg Writing - “An imaginative and expressive story that is introspective in its navigation of time and the notion of grief. I was inspired by the lyricism of the author’s prose, and wanted to explore the layers of the main character’s nautical adventures through the use of digital collage and mixed media. I wanted to reflect on how the symbolism of lilies was imbued into the narrative, and the idea of travelling as a passage of time - a fitting meditation during this period of solitude.” - Zu Orzu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1589164475291-9WKZY8YX8JCRFC6YCHYF/Daniel+Vday+Letter+-+1.jpg Writing - Love is pure.. Because it is useless. Useless like watching a sunset, and knowing it will fade. Like being touched by a snowflake, and knowing it will melt. Like holding a flower, and knowing it will wither. And in a world full of purpose, and purposeful things. When everything else is gone. What remains are the useless things. Like Love. Because it is useless. It is pure. — I wish you the most useless, purest of things. Love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1589165284851-PFU5AMNWTRRL3OPWQM99/Daniel+Vday+Letter+-+2.jpg Writing - Dear Reader-I-Might-Never-Know, I was asked to write a letter on Love. To readers I have never met. Whom I might never meet. Which is a shame, to me, because anyone who might be interested in a letter on Love, from one who means nothing, is a person I would love to meet. Not in a group, but one-on-one – because truth is only sent forth, from exactly one heart, straight to exactly one other heart. Which is why a book – with one person directly communing with one other person, is one of the truest ways any two persons can connect. But we make do with what we can. So, I am writing this as though I am writing this exactly to you – for you. With the hope that you might not find my words completely meaningless. That some of my words might find their way from my heart, into yours. I want you to think about someone. Someone you love. And think about why you love this person. Is it the way their hair falls in curls over their forehead? Is it that winsome dimple that appears when they smile? Is it the words they say that make you feel like you are not alone in the world? If you can find the exact reasons why you love them, then you do indeed feel something for them. But it is not Love. It is not Love, when you love them for something. Love is when you love and you do not know why. Love is without meaning. Without purpose. Without use. Because it is without all these other things, it is pure. And when everything else is stripped away, when everything else fades away, Love remains. Love perseveres. Love sustains. Love is the only reason why we live. It is the only reason why we go on, despite knowing we will not last forever. And it is this truest of things that I wish for you – Love. And nothing else. On and with Love, Daniel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaa8b1cea982153d8ac0146/1589175964779-U31MMZ3ZQJ1HNXGRJLRJ/Lilies.jpg Writing - Us readers are a sadomasochistic bunch. We feel compelled to seek out, and weigh down our souls with the million worries, and cares, and fears, and bad habits, and mistakes, of countless other individuals - most of whom might exist, only within the pages of a book, written by a stranger (at least at first, before you begin reading them). Some may never care beyond their immediate self, or their immediate family, or maybe a few close friends. Inner worlds or other people’s worlds do not exist if you do not engage with them. But I believe readers do not choose to be readers. You do not care because you read. You read because you care. You read, because something tells you that there might exist other worlds besides your own. You read, because something makes you feel that those worlds might be as important as your own. Because you know that all worlds—made up or not—inevitably contain truth, and if you follow them far enough, you will find that their roots stretch back to reality. 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