My favourite places all reside in memory. One, in particular, the home of my former classmate, Xiyin, flourishes there, and I visit it often in both mindfulness and reverie. I left China many years ago, […]

Though I do not wholly subscribe to the errantry of the dolorous knight, Don Quixote, tilting at windmills to personify immortally the visionary and the impracticable, there is admittedly at least a measure of his […]

Strength is born in adversity. Fear creates danger; courage dispels it. Necessity begets invention. Life goes on for most; not for some. Those who survive and later prosper are those best equipped to learn from […]

When I was young girl in China – former life – one of my favourite pastimes was listening to the stories of my grandmother. Most enjoyable were those heard on summer evenings while sitting in […]

Twenty-five years ago, today, I initiated our lamentable parting. Though the date and season of that fateful evening may have at long last been banished from your mind, the memory of what was said and […]

Et ce n’est pas à cause d’elle, qu’elle, débattue du mythe, peut se justifier à elle-même et se tenir un miroir soudain sur elle-même, s’exclamant: ‘C’était moi!’ Elle n’est pas une cause pour elle-même, n’étant […]

Neither sainte nor super; neither woman nor man. Embodiment of third-gender paragon. Dauntless as any woman, reckless as any man, not following, less leading, wildness and wiseness, sempiternal. In vast surrender, strength renewed; in service, […]