In the past, lion dancing was performed mostly by men. But it is different today. LionDanceMe is a lion dancing group in San Francisco, California. There are boys and girls on its team. They dance together. “Anyone can take up lion dancing. You have to believe that you can do it,...
He poked the page even harder. I nearly dropped the book. I was confused: Is there something wrong with this kid? Then I realized what was happening. He was actually a stranger to books. His father frequently amused the boy with a tablet computer which was loaded with colorful pictures ...
We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world. —George Arthur Buttrick 7 Writing is a journey into the unknown. —...
In a moment, there they were: a pair of gargantuan males eyeing each other suspiciously, one crouched beneath a tree trunk, and the other stretched out just meters away, motionless on our arrival like some ancient marble masterpiece depicting the monsters the Argonauts faced. “What is the m...
This time, there’s less stuff to purge, since we got rid of the obvious ‘low hanging fruit’ last time. But with longer advance notice, the process is slower, since I can be deliberate more about that to keep or discard. This is not a good thing: I feel like I’m dragging ...
Wealthy Japanese families have traditionally decamped to the mountain resort town of Karuizawa – an hour’s train ride from Tokyo – for its lush forests and onsen (hot springs). Now there’s a hotel that celebrates those natural assets. ‘There were many beautiful trees at the site ...
These records of the past need to be handled with care. And we need to ask is there enough evidence to go on to establish much at all regarding a certain epoch of time? For example there’s the Iron Age Tollund Man discovered in a peat bog in Jutland in 1950. We can visit him in...
1310.As there have been so many different styles of Western art, it is impossible to describe them all in a short text. 由于西方的艺术风格多种多样,在短短的一篇课文里不可能进行全面的描述。 1311.Perhaps the best way...
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.Oscar Wilde. You don’t write because you want to say something. You write because you’ve got something to say.F. Scott Fitz...
HUNTER: “Skyways (하늘길)“. I like to look at the sky. Looking at the sky reminds me that there are millions of other people in this world feeling the same, many more other people going on with their lives, many birds in the sky flying, many fishes doing their thing, and it...