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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I forgot to water the mint this morning before I left and when I came home it was limp, every leaf from the top ones the caterpillars keep chewing off in the night to the…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Can you remember a day before your life started? Born in 1992, I didn’t start remembering June 4th in 1989 until 2007. 4 June 2007 began as just another Monday. At my Beijing high school,…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Friends and Books on Just Another Day “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience, this is the ideal life.” So said Mark Twain. This sums up my Saturday, spent roaming around Hong Kong Island…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Traveling today, leaving Hong Kong, on holiday. Smooth connection of minibus to airport bus. An early Sunday morning calm over the streets; but we can tell it’s going to be another scorcher, as the sun…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY When I lived in Beijing, it was as if calendars were printed deliberately with the day ghosted out. It ran straight from 3 June to 5 June, without blinking. Without passing Go or collecting 200…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My shoulder aches a little from carrying a heavy bag while walking around this morning. My sister gave me three packs of instant mashed potatoes mix to give to our 婆婆 por por because our…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Memory From 4 June 2022 My father, now aged 55, used to work as a journalist in the local branch of a renowned state media in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province, when he…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY **VI IV** Jackasses understood nothing ever, Fighting others undertaking random things hopeful. 19 or 89 years. Do you see a weep in the palindrome I stole from social media? We forgive teens, allowing two decades…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY On 21 May 1936, the novelist Mao Dun, along with some media colleagues, published a project they called “One Day in China [中国的一日]“. Depending on how you read the Chinese, it was intended to highlight…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Douglas Robinson, Gulliver’s Voyage to Phantomimia: A Transcreation, Zeta Books, 2020. 356 pgs. I imagine, that in the Great Deluge, 2 sworn Enemies, having clumb up onto the same…
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