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Shanghai Woman Blues
She seems so sad. Shanghai woman’s got the blues. This song’s for her. Filed under: Asia Tagged: Blues, China, Elijah Honey, Old City, PRC, Sadness, Shanghai, Sunlight, Sweet lovin' chile
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An Afternoon in Shanghai’s Old City, Part 1
Chinatown always has me at nín hǎo*. Three old men in grey cardigans talk about the good old days. A woman in an orange baseball cap fries dumplings on the street. Jangles of cheap jewelry hang...
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An Afternoon in Shanghai’s Old City, Part 2
Notes: 1. Oh! The light! 2. There is that orange knapsack again. 3. In the last photograph, the woman is covering her nose because she has just encountered durian, a fruit that (from my perspective,...
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The exquisiteness of daily life
{When the beauty of daily life knocks you out.} Filed under: Asia Tagged: Daily life, Instagram, iPhotography, Japan, Rain, Yokohama
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Train story: Shanghai to Beijing
From Shanghai to Beijing in five hours and 30 minutes in the “sight-seeing car” at the cone-shaped end of a bullet train. Five hours and a half of yellow dust-scape and, near nowhere, impenetrable...
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12 happy minutes
“I consider a walk around the block the same as a journey to India.” ~ Maira Kalman “When I walk, I have an empty, happy brain and I see things.” ~ Maira Kalman Sometimes other people write and say...
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Night-slipping
i. This, my favourite season. Warm, mid-twenties days, nights cool enough for sweaters {though my inner-Canadian scoffs. Toughs it out.} ii. Young lovers in Chinatown seem unburdened entirely without...
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dragon-fighters
i didn’t fight the dragon with you. you were so brave. i was not yet ready for battle. Filed under: Asia Tagged: Cool boots, Dragon-slayers, Dragons, Family Mart, Japan, Yokohama People
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The train to Tokyo is my teacher
The train to Tokyo is my teacher. I’ve seen skyscraper shoes, people sleeping standing up, silver mini-skirts, shark-bite knapsacks and train benches blooming with kimonos. These rides between Tokyo...
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train-people (with exceptions)
The Japanese are train-people dog-people, cautious-people, well-dressed people. These things are true-ish. Except when they’re not. (There are always exceptions.) At lunch the young people at the table...
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