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A Poem with Faith in Wellness
SOUNDTRACK (a work in progress) When the agitated syncopy Of your thready heartbeats Stop to amass a clap of thunder Over a crashing surf And you fight The waves With Cuchulain’s sword When your body...
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English, Chinglish and now Yue-Yinglish
I am one of those people who actually enjoys tests, especially those that challenge my verbal or reasoning skills. In basic military training, sometime not long after the time of muskets and canon...
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Zaijian
Books have been virtually replaced by blogs. But, puns aside, many of them showcase the transformative elements Pablo Neruda* suggests as essential to written art in Ars Magnetica: “From so much...
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Maybe it was the Chinese tea….
China Hands, the expats who have spent several years here, all have one or more stories about questionable medical care in China. One visit to a traditional hospital and a diagnosis of “Palpitation of...
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The funniest man in China….
Who: Attended Cathedral Chorister School, Durham with Tony Blair ? Who was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1982 for the 1981 season? Who once crashed his...
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The League of Extraordinary Chinese Women: And Then There Was One…
The original League lost one more extraordinary woman this week. Ms. 珍 (Zhen) , first from the right, succumbed to breast cancer that spread to her liver for want of appropriate treatment. (There is a...
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Intermediate Yueyinglish….
A few months ago I posted about The Unsinkable Ms Yue’s uncanny ability to render herself understood in any circumstance. I have often used her as an example in my classes to encourage students to...
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Blog of Dreams
The Dream: Our dream is to travel in 2007 to every mainland province in China. During this journey, it is our intention to chronicle the everyday lives of ordinary Chinese citizens. Our motivation for...
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Whose enemies are they? Pt.1…
Last week during a visit Zach, the Monk in the Sycamore Tree, looked more like a Catholic priest in a open air confessional as we spoke through the screened window separating my porch from the living...
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Coffee
In the 1970′s I was tasked by the military to teach medics the stages of grief written about and popularized by Elizabeth Kubler Ross. Disbelief, Anger, Denial and Acceptance are all part and parcel of...
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