Category: 2023 Entries
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I was a first-year student at university in Baltimore. It was the end of the academic year and finals were about to start. We had a reading day or two where we could review and…
![[JUST ANOTHER DAY] Susan Blumberg-Kason](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/just-another-day_cha.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Dear Kathy, Itβs just another day on Cleveland Avenue in Ithaca, New York. Itβs Sunday, June 4. I wrote you a little while ago saying that nothing had changed on the block since you…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Morning Early June in West London can be the best of times. Blue skies, a fresh breeze, the neighbourhood trees sporting thick shocks of leaves. That rattling sound is another magpie, strutting over the flat…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY it is 1989. i am twelve, at home watching the dutch news. surprisingly, with my mum. she rarely watches the dutch news, but on this day in which nothing happened, thirty-four years ago, she watched…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Iβm a college student now, and June 4th falls during the summer vacation. It feels like just another day because Iβll continue to do what I planned this summer; itβs also more than just another…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I have not finished the first draft of the new book I said I would have done by this week. Close, but not quite. Still need some words; still need to fiddle. Thereβs a magazine…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY You live in a northern capital Time passes You leave You live in a fragrant harbour Time passes You leave But Like a tree that has sucked in water sucked in air to build stories…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Notes on Forgetting Never take anything for granted: the inner flame despite the wind; unquiet hearts in the plaza; the breathable air in the streets. On this any other day, this city feels so old…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY ιΏι£ζ£ε³: 1989 β 2023 In April 1989, I was living in Providence, Rhode Island and working as a speechwriter. I was 23 and everything seemed possible: books to read, poems and stories to write, lips…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Three Paintings with Regard to June 4th Night Ritual (2011) oil on canvas, 25Γ100 cm People burning paper to send thoughts to the dead. In the painting there are six people on the left, four on…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Morning, 4 June 2023 Two and a half years after leaving Hongkong, weβre now in a Causeway Bay hotel that overlooks Victoria Park. Well, the rooms on the other side of the hotel overlook the…
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N TO JUST ANOTHER DAY When I woke up, I picked up my phone straight away. The very first thing I saw was Instagram footage of the artist Sanmu Chen being detained in Causeway Bay. One police officer was holding…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Every Sunday morning, I listen to a radio programme that plays new music. And on this day, a date when something terrible happened 34 years ago, I thought of songs about forgetting and remembering, of…
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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY My Ordinary Experience The year the event took place I was almost four years old. I only had vague and fragmented memories of some TV footage of things burning, people running, and my momβs crying…
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π 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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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Can you remember a day before your life started? Born in 1992, I didnβt 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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π RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Friends and Books on Just Another Day βGood friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience, this is the ideal life.β So said Mark Twain. This sums up my Saturday, spent roaming around Hong Kong Island…
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π 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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π 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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πΒ 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 ε©ε© por por because our…
![[JUST ANOTHER DAY] Charis P](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/screenshot-2023-06-01-at-11.32.04.png?w=1024)
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πΒ 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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πΒ 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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πΒ 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 [δΈε½ηδΈζ₯]“. Depending on how you read the Chinese, it was intended to highlight…
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Douglas Robinson, Gulliverβs 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…
![[REVIEW] ββWhat is He Doing Playing Fantastickall Fictive Games with Realitie?β Or, βA Pandemonium of Embracesβ: Luxuriating in Douglas Robinsonβs Transcreation of Volter Kilpiβs Unfinished πΊπ’ππππ£ππβπ πππ¦πππ π‘π πβπππ‘ππππππβ by Jason S Polley](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/gullivers-voyage-to-phantomimia-a-transcreation-1.png?w=1024)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Seven Moons. Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Penguin India, 2022. This review is cross-published with Polity. A murdered journalist “awakens” in…
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