Recent Posts Tagged With 'formidable'

• Pieces of China: Part 3

  Posted on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at 03:00 in my, confidence, Shop, wisdom, selling, motorcycles, a, ancient, the, and, road, dignity

  Chinese Recollections: Writing and Painting The forms of any written Chinese characters are exquisite — on rusty signs, tea packets or even just as graffiti. I came across a bamboo thicket rich in poetic beauty. On closer inspection I was transfixe...

• Pieces of China: Part 2

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 03:00 in my, confidence, Shop, wisdom, selling, motorcycles, a, ancient, the, and, road, dignity

  Chinese Recollections: Talking and Eating Someone small and lively is vacuuming the hall carpet outside my room in a bright green skirt suit and high heels. “Nihau!” sparkles generously from her smile. “Nihau!” I delightedly respond. I know o...

• Plumbing The Deep

  Posted on Tuesday March 18th, 2008 at 13:51 in my, view, scuba diving, sea, meditation, caribbean, fish, skin, diving, autobiography, a, the

  By far my greatest fear when I was younger was one of deep water. I suppose as fears go that’s quite a rational one. It was perpetuated by Jaws—a movie surely unavoidable by anyone alive in the late 1970s. At the time, Jaws served as confirmation...