“Mind like water” is the concept that one react appropriately in any given situation. The concept is visual. Throw a pebble in water. A small splash rises from the water and ripples spread out from where it enters.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to reacting to body language, my mind is no longer [...]
Oh where, oh where will it be?
Is it under a bush?
Is it out on the lawn?
Or, (yes), even caught up in the tree?
Each morning I play hide and seek
Because, as you can see,
On the porch, or even near the porch,
The Journal will just never be.
A call to the Journal got this response:
Well … you see [...]
A few years ago I was visiting some of my former students from Sichuan who were then working in a factory in Guangdong.
At the time there had been a story in the news that a couple Americans had been arrested for stealing some artifacts from an Egyptian pyramid.
One of my former students asked me whether [...]
I’m currently trying to think of a name for a user account in Second Life. When I had only ever lived in the US I probably would have picked some cool foreign sounding name without pause for thought; probably name myself after some ancient Greek astronomer. However, after living in China for four years, I [...]
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