Saturday, January 29, 2022

Spring

 If there's just one minute left for me

I want my soul to live that minute clean.

- Khet Thi

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Earthrise

To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold — brothers who know now they are truly brothers.

- Archibald MacLeish

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Books read in 2021. 

  1. A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi
  2. Stories of the Sahara - Sanmao
  3. Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon - Rahul Jandial
  4. 恋人 - Jeong Ho-Seung
  5. Unnatural Causes - Richard Shepherd
  6. Letter to My Mother - Felix Cheong (Editor)
  7. The Battle for Home - Memoir of a Syrian Architect - Marwa al-Sabouni
  8. The Way We Die Now - Seamus O'Mahony
  9. Broken Stars - Ken Liu (editor)
  10. The Memory Police - Ogawa Yoko
  11. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-ju
  12. At Dusk - Hwang Sok-yong
  13. Diary of a Murderer - Kim Young-ha
  14. The Foundations of Chinese Medicine Vol 1 - Giovanni Maciocia
  15. Books Do Furnish a Life - Richard Dawkins
  16. The Spy and the Traitor - Ben Macintyre
  17. The  Poetry of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
  18. Katharina and Luthur - Michelle DeRusha
  19. The Master Key - Togawa Masako
  20. Memoirs of a Polar Bear - Tawada Yoko
  21. The Honjin Murders - Yokomizo Seishi
  22. How Do You Live? - Yoshino Genzaburo
  23. Touring the Land of the Dead - Kashimada Maki
  24. Shoko's Smile - Choi Eun-young
  25. The Woman in the Purple Skirt - Imamura Natsuko