When I was a child, in China, I walked to school with my classmates. On the way to school, the boys used to catch cicadas. They found them in the trees and in the bamboo forest in the summer. To catch the cicadas, the boys used to put glue on the ends of bamboo sticks, …
Tag: China
Mirror
A mirror is an ordinary thing,/ but not for me./ When I look at it, it is time for me to face myself./ I talk to my other self behind the cold surface,/ to my best friend whose life I share.
Finding Myself
The night before the parent-teacher meeting, my daughter asked, “Mom, what are you going to wear for the meeting tomorrow?” I said, “Just gray sportswear.” My daughter said, “Can’t you wear a skirt, makeup, or something?” After listening to her, I felt speechless in my heart. I used to spend two hours every day putting …
My Ideal Home
The top part of the Chinese character 家 (home) looks just like the roof of a house, which shelters you from the wind and rain. In my view, a home does not need to be very luxurious or magnificent, but it must be a place where I feel warm, comfortable, and cozy. It must be …
Universe
Every time I fall into depression, I think about the universe. “The beauty and clearness of the dynamic theory, which asserts heat and light to be modes of motion, is at present obscured by two clouds.” This was said by the physicist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) on April 27, 1900, in a speech that pointed …