The Zhuangzi values individuals for being authentic themselves, but with a distinctive paradoxical tension between “being self 成己 (chenji)” and “losing self 喪我 (sangwo)”. In this position, it is different from modern individualism or liberalism. Being an authentic self, or an authentic...
2. Small talk can be a way to find commonalities and help bridge cultural or power divides. Recently I was on a call with a couple of Indian colleagues, and while we were waiting for everyone else to join I asked them where they lived in India. They didn’t expect that I had heard ...
hope that it will all make sense one day May 2013 Derek Wilson Posted in Poetry, Writing Tags: acting, actors, Beer, Coffee, dancers, Dancing, Fire, little fires, Poetry, restless, Rhyme, rhyming couplets, scraps of paper, Singing, social networks, Tea, transients o be satisfied •...
"the Danes, who spread terror and upheaval wheresoever they went, plundering and burning and desolating the country with such rapidity," caused "a great commotion in England." When Aethelred was told in 1002 CE that the Vikings "would beshrew him of his life, and afterw...
a When opinion polls (民意调查) ask Americans about privacy, most say they are concerned about losing it. A survey found an overwhelming pessimism about privacy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they feel their privacy is “slipping away, and that bothers me.”[translate] ...
Never fear: Real poems are also a part of this episode, along with restless shadows, brain dissection, losing one’s marbles and general cluelessness involving the meaning of the lyrics in Steely Dan’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.”...
(who by this point has the voice I recognise as Wil Wheaton’s!) said “Maybe I am sick of following rules and regulations! Maybe I’m sick of living up to everyone else’s expectations! Did you ever think of that?!” and I thought this had some good rhyme and rhythm to it, so...
Then again, until here, I didn’t think it was all that strange to reel off a rhyme with little provocation. Foxfier says: February 15, 2023 at 11:19 am Same. I may do really horrible poetry– there’s not going to be any great bardic products of ever-flowing soul from me– ...
Losing a couple of months will do that to you. That said, I really love the Christmas season, and have been doing what I can this year to make it a better season than before. I’ve got a Christmas tree up in my apartment, and last night I participated in an old holiday cookie-dec...
Kennedy knew he liked her from the beginning but despite sharing a room for a whole month, it wasn’t until Jessica fell ill with malaria and he was gripped with the fear of losing her that he revealed his feelings. Jessica got admitted to the Nairobi hospital for treatment where she spen...