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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Performance Art in a “City Without Protest” Hongkongers have long visually resisted the domination of the Chinese communist Leviathan and its collaborators in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) regime. From supporting the democracy…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I got up early, dressed quickly, had some coffee and a bowl of yogurt with blueberries and raspberries, and got in the elevator at 8:30 am, along with the security man who was finishing his…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today was a sunny day, so this afternoon I decided to visit a couple of Hong Kong’s urban parks. I headed off from my home in Sheung Wan soon after lunch and boarded a tram…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Your father and aunt were writing to prisoners today. Neat letters with kind words. My page stayed blank, and I felt selfish. I couldn’t write, not even to you. I went to the place where…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Walked my dog in the evening and ran into a gaggle of policemen downstairs handling a domestic dispute. Headed home and read some poems to avoid scanning the news lest I see familiar faces being…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I get up eventually. I’m happy. It is an incredibly bright day. I read. I think about Jack Spicer’s Martian in his brilliant lectures in The House that Jack Built (Wesleyan University Press, 1998), edited by…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Good Enough “… I’ve lost count of the years …” This day a year ago, during the launch of her published play Wild Boar, Candace Chong said this in passing. It hit me very hard,…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY The June sun warms my skin. It feels like summer. I have come to the public pool to swim laps. It is nearly deserted, except for the lifeguard. The water feels cold at first, but…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Everyday Soundtrack It’s six weeks now since I moved to this other part of town. Into an apartment near the train station. With a kitchen window view to the incoming and outgoing trains. To the passengers, walking…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY We went to Garryvoe beach today during a rare Irish heat wave in early June. The sea water was quite warm but a cold breeze cut through us from the sea despite the brilliance of…
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