Category: Just Another Day
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Hope A few days ago, I got together with a close friend with whom I often end up commiserating about the world’s injustices. We ate sticky cinnamon buns in the hot Texas heat as our…
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📁 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…
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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Dear Kathy, It’s just another day on Cleveland Avenue in Ithaca, New York. It’s Sunday, June 4. I wrote you a little while ago saying that nothing had changed on the block since you…
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📁 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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📁 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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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY I’m a college student now, and June 4th falls during the summer vacation. It feels like just another day because I’ll continue to do what I planned this summer; it’s also more than just another…
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📁 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. There’s a magazine…
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📁 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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📁 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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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY 阿飛正傳: 1989 – 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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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Three Paintings with Regard to June 4th Night Ritual (2011) oil on canvas, 25×100 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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📁 RETURN TO JUST ANOTHER DAY Morning, 4 June 2023 Two and a half years after leaving Hongkong, we’re 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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📁 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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📁 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 mom’s crying…
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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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📁 Click HERE to read the 54 selected “JUST ANOTHER DAY” entries Cha: An Asian Literary Journal invites one-off submissions of 300-500 word reflections written on 4 June 2023 from writers residing anywhere in the world, to be selected for…
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