I’m learning things about poetry I’ve never previously been aware of. It seems that one can enter a conversation with a well-known poet by writing a glosa – taking four lines of any of their works and incorporating them in a particular expansion in one of your own. Björn Rudberg is today’s dVerse host, guidingContinue reading “Lines Across a Divided Country”
Tag Archives: History
Standing on the shoulders of those gone before
Responding to prompts to begin writing down my memoirs, I’ve begun to gather the scattered anecdotes of my forebears’ pedigrees. After all, I carry something of their influence and makeup in my very bones. As I rummage through boxes of diagrams, letters, photos and reference works, what I have been discovering is a theme thatContinue reading “Standing on the shoulders of those gone before”
Beginning of the Great Revival – a movie review
This Chinese blockbuster had only one patron in the large Cinema 4 at the local multiplex this morning. This is the second time in a few weeks where I’ve been the sole customer – it says something about my choice of movies, I suppose! Large attendances in China, I am led to understand, are manipulatedContinue reading “Beginning of the Great Revival – a movie review”
Wondering Pilgrim 