— for encouraging the pathway of expression and experience; that is all that was ever needed in my philosophical grounds in anthropology and religious studies.

— for offering an ear; for appreciating my inkling toward acoustemology during my academic formative years, and for paving a research course of 'biomediatization' that allowed me to find more purpose in open-sourced media projects, and to pursue musicology within sound studies.

— for acknowledging the natural outlook toward community sovereignty, for setting the score at a high reach where ethnomusicologists are to hold space for experimental ethnographic media labs. 

— for making fun of my word-salad and reflecting on times of grief, so that I could study things like speech pathology and behavior analysis before going to consider myself a chaplain.

— for offering the most substantial collection of texts that became the groundwork of People’s Park Soundscapes, while also reminding me that esotericism could be more readily understood across the board for the sake of interreligious and interfaith spheres. 

— for being you; for your strife with the battle for People’s Park, your inspiration as an anthropologist and reminder of the necessity yet capacity to face critical issues of our time, as a woman; your conception of the “three bodies” in anthropology allowed roots for my entire foundation as a human and aspiring cultural anthropologist.