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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I take the old ferry across the harbour for the first time in five years; I think of water. They’re talking about stopping the ferry service even though it has brought locals from peninsula to…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY On Sundays my son works backstage doing tech for a church in Wan Chai. The dress code for the production team is all black, allowing them to disappear into the shadows. The goal is to…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY A Lazy Sunday in Abu Dhabi June 4th 2023 was a largely unremarkable day. A lazy Sunday in balmy Abu Dhabi—where I unexpectedly find myself, having left Sri Lanka when I least expected to do so.…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Never Forget, an Echo will Then Arise In 1993, Charles S. Maier asked, “Are we suffering from too much memory?” “The fault is not with memory,” he argued, “but with our current balance of past…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY It happened when I was prepping for a roundtable on Hong Kong I am taking part in tomorrow, deliberately timed to be a day after this, just another day. My soundtrack for work was the…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY In Kuala Lumpur space is on steroids. Swelling, bulging, limitless. Perhaps that’s exactly the reaction you’d expect from someone from an island city-state, where land is so limited that we constantly renegotiate our boundaries with…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Today is a clean slate. It began with stretches and back exercises, because at some point one’s biology tips towards sleeplessness and aches. I had breakfast in a wood-panelled dining room that I will probably…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY It is 4:20 am here in Vancouver, on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, as I begin to write. The day has awakened me. The memory of what happened, thirty-four years…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY There is never just another day in our lives. The moon will glow strawberry bright on June 4th, on an Earth where only a few humans have tasted strawberries. Skeletal thousands die today and every…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My day starts with glitter. I rub some lip balm between my fingertips to soften it, then apply it to my temples and cheekbones. Looking in the mirror, I tilt my head sideways, then sprinkle…
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