Dated 29 Nov, 2006.

way up north I took my day
all in all was a pretty nice
day and I put the hood
right back where
you could taste heaven
perfectly

Ni hao,

And the cannon again goes bang! And the 5th Symphony starts up through the microphones. The world can be strange and sudden, when you look at it right.

I wish I could give you a coherent ( Read more... )

Dated 21 Nov, 2006.

Going eight miles a minute for months at a time,
Breaking all the rules I could bend,
I began to find myself searching,
Searching for shelter again and again...
...against the wind.

Ni hao,
Back and forth like a bang-bang pinball, bang bang bang! Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, never the same town twice. One ( Read more... )

Dated to the 11th of November, 2006 this is where it all started to change. I swore to hold to the truth in my writings home, and all these upheavals happened...

It's really all become too much, I'm not sure what I should feel.
I guess I've finally had enough, I don't know if this is real.
I'm crashing in and out of touch, can anyone explain?

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Dated 15 Oct, 2006.
( These Magic Moments )

Dated 8 Oct, 2006.

Ni hao,
...and that was vacation. I have no entries in my journal from Oct 1 until today (Oct 7), which should say something in itself.

I'll leave the camping trip out...suffice to say, it didn't happen, and you don't want to know about the vomit anyway.

"As we learned on the train, there's no tomorrow, man...tomorrow never happens! ( Read more... )

Dated 2 Oct, 2006.

What is real? What is real?

Ni hao,

God opened to me an understanding, as George Fox would say, on Tuesday night. I saw suddenly the point on the future's horizon line, where the lines of passion, skill, knowledge, curiosity and potential converge on a single point, a goal, a Nameless City in the desert to get to. The 'aha ( Read more... )

Dated 26 Sept, 2006.

Ni hao,

When I first moved into my apartment, with its’ three spacious bedrooms, two bathrooms ,vast living room and kitchen besides, my head began to swell with visions. Visions of green-grown verandas, where I could while a morning over Chinese chess and tea with someone; of a rich-paneled study glinting in the late afternoon ( Read more... )

Dated to September 17, 2006. Good god.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee?
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife?
In ( Read more... )

Dated to the 10th of September, 2006.

No sex,

No drugs,
No wine,
No women,
No you,
No wonder it's dark

Ni hao,

It was Monday noon, Beijing time, when I sent my last update that arrived fresh and toasty in your email boxes Sunday evening, and God it's apazing how fast information moves these days, huh? Monday, I was riding high, with two ( Read more... )

Dated 3 Sep, 2006. This is where I figured out what my voice was.

"I'm living in a foreign country, but I'm bound to cross the line." - Bob Dylan, "Shelter from the Storm"
Ni hao,

I started teaching last Monday. God, has it been a long week.

I came knowning nothing of teaching, little of children, and a damn sight less of China. Monday was ( Read more... )