but make sure it’s your intuition, rather than your insecurities, doing the talking. Your instincts are fine-tuned from decades of exposure to the world around you; you know how communication works, that when you extend a hand towards someone it usually means “friend” rather than “foe....
I headed towards a main road – away from trees – and picked up my pace. Then the rains came. Torrential. Drenching. If I was driving, the type of rain where your wipers seemed useless. I tried to run – it wasn’t pretty – but I knew I couldn’t run the whole way back. I...
Without warning, I accidently kicked the ball too hard and it flew straight towards Ms Goh and hit her on the head. She landed on the floor with a loud thud, and her bags scattered all over the place. Upon seeing that, my friends and my feet were rooted to the ground. I was the ...
Day Two we headed towards Madison, Wisconsin, where we didn’t know anybody but we thought eight hours of driving would be enough for one day. We were wrong. Before we left Cleveland, I took Kip to a park so he could catch his first glimpse of a Great lake, specifically, Erie. He ...
When William retutned to the bank after Matthew’s death, he found it hard to get back into any sort of normal routine. He would get up and start to head towards Matthew’s office for advice or a laugh, or merely to be assured of his existence, but he was no longer there. It wa...
Because the back of the house faces east, while some of the front panels were placed towards south, this design needed more solar panels to generate the same electricity, and therefore was more expensive, but only by 2.3%. Sungevity website gave a very nice graphical interface to play with...
I was shocked at the time. But now the shift is plain to see. The idea of the holistic, organic liberalism (beautifully described by the Guardian as the ‘esoteric left’) is on its way out. This section of what used to be the left is moving towards the radical right. ...
He should have said,’ would you carry this chair to apartment for me?’ 1. lit up in relief形容在苦惱時突然獲得解脫時的表情,臉上好像突發光一樣。見到救星般 2. jogged towards向某個方向慢去。 3. subtle: 微妙的,例如「微妙的關係」、「微妙的分別」等。留意subtle的b時不發音。 張貼在 图书 ...
If I had thought ahead to bring a plastic grocery bag for the camera that might have worked. As it turned out the white houses were just across from the ship, so I headed to the upper deck and took pictures between showers. Photo ©Jean Janssen. A closer look at the White Houses ...
Letz Zep were fantastic. No song in the Zep catalogue was too much for them – not even the likes ofStairway to HeavenandDazed and Confused. The guitarist did the full mid 70s Jimmy Page; and while the singer didn’t look too much like Robert Plant – though he had the hair – he ...