A Personal Farewell To China

It’s 3:35 AM Monday morning Beijing time, and I’m headed back home today.  This is going to be a loooong day.  The taxi will pick us up at 6:00 AM to take us to the airport for the first leg of our eighteen-hour flight back to Columbus.
We’ve been in Beijing for the last thirty-six hours.  We [...]

Thoughts On The Mountain Pass To Anxi

Image by KM Cheng, Hong Kong

Everyone sees Beauty and the Ugliness that comes into being with it.  Everyone knows Good and the Evil it creates.
High and low.  Hard and easy.  Heavy and light.  Last and first.
The Sage teaches without words.  Sees the duality of the world and knows that the beginning and the ending endlessly [...]

Friends

It’s Friday morning here in China and we’re nearly half-way through our trip already.  It’s true what Gretchen Rubin noted in her one minute movie, “The days are long, but the years are short.”
Yesterday we visited a long-time supplier (at least for China) in their new factory in Jiangmen.  My friend KM works for this [...]