Hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. 

Whether you are dropping by or staying to join the community, please check out my featured posts on what is a flourishing commons and my learning philosophy on being human. I hope you will find resonance in collective healing, (re-)learning what it means to be human, and sharing beauty. If you have a beautiful experience of your own to share, please consider joining the community for free and leaving the story to inspire others! 

If you are a member, check out the digital downloads that I'm offering to the community. They are tagged and can be found directly in the corresponding posts for the level of membership. Otherwise, this feed will consist of quick updates of my artwork, writing, and advocacy work. If you are interested in exploring a larger collection of my scholarly and creative work, please visit my personal website.

With love,

Van Thi

If you are looking for a new host to power your website or shop, please consider using my referral links below. Please note that these links aren't discount codes, just referrals used for supporting me. 

Fourthwall 

This site is powered by Fourthwall. As you can see, it can host online shops and a membership site with customised pages. It's completely free for the first 50 shop items. Use my referal link to get $10 in sample credit upon signing up. I only have 3 referals and will only get sample credits when you make 3 sales, so please don't redeem the code if you aren't serious.

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Carrd

Carrd.co is a one-page resonsive website builder, but you can use it to mimic multi-page sites, like my personal website, using sections. It's intuitive and affordable. The free plan is limited but the standard plan to use with a custom domain and more is only $19 USD per year. If you are considering signing up for a paid plan, please consider using my referral link. Unfortunately, you don't get anything out of it other than to support me!

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Pagecord

Pagecord is the blogging platform I'm using at the moment for my blog/flash non-fiction writing. I like it because it creates simple and very attractive blogs without distractions. The free plan works really well already for text-only blogs, but the paid plan is still very affordable for extra features. I don't actually have a referral link for this. I just want to help an independent developer who seems like a nice person when it costs me nothing to do so. 

The second half of 2025 has been a year of resting, reflecting, and purposeful isolation for me. Even though it's a new year, my soul still wants to hibernate. Perhaps, it's only natural since the blooms and sprouts don't come out until spring. 

While one part of me rests, another part has been exploring new areas for change. It seems that whenever I change internally, I like to overhaul my website. So, of course, I'm making this post to share with you my new personal website.

I really like it. It saves me lots of money and it looks cute and serious at the same time. I've had to scrap my old wordpress blog in the process, so I've now started a minimalist blog for my reflections. 

I've also done a few changes at A Flourishing Commons. I've moved the free downloads from the shop into the membership posts. In addition to the original ones I had, I added a guided meditation based on the forest therapy invitation called The Pleasures of Presence. Check it out!

I've archived some of the items in the shop (and in my head) to make room for some exciting ideas I have for showcasing my artwork. But those ideas will need some more time to germinate. In the mean time, thank you for being here to hold space for me/us/the world to work through whatever we need in order to make our vision of a better world come true.

P.S. If you need a new website host, I will be posting referral links in another post.

Vision boards are often used as tools to manifest personal goals or desired lifestyles. But what if your deepest desire is not personal but related to the world we live in? A world of supportive social systems, non-judgmental communities, and paradigms of unconditional worthiness. How can a vision that’s bigger than our individual life be manifested into the world? Let’s start by bringing this vision into the world through a social vision board.

This was originally a presentation for a virtual expo on virtual worldbuilding. However, I took the the concept of worldbuilding literally to apply to our real physical 3D world.