Posted in China, Culture, Medicine on Nov 16th, 2008 No Comments »
In the summer of 2005 I left Asia and returned to the USA to practice the medicine of China in Seattle. This blog has been a chronicle of that chapter, and like all chapters there is an end. This is it.
Yong Kang Clinic has changed hands and become Ageless Acupuncture. My address again is Beijing. [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Everyday Acupuncture on Nov 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Unlike Taiwan’s damp wind that blows like a smothering grandmother’s kiss; Beijing’s wall of dry sand filled bluster is like the smack of a binge economy gone on the rocks. Startling in its invisible blinding strength; sheets of dust, sand, now falling leaves, and a confetti of litter all take to the sky and shimmer [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Wellness on Oct 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Xinzuobiao is a vertical community just out past the Fang Zhuang exquisite food street; where the towering new China bumps up against city peasant markets, broken pavement, dust and Soviet era utilitarian boxes of concrete. The subway with its new Olympic induced lines flow new underground rivers of people as the roadways triple park themselves [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Travel on Oct 15th, 2008 No Comments »
They litter the corners of intersections like giant green boxy roaches; gather in clusters at the exits of subways and massive shopping malls. In Chinese they are joking referred to as “electric donkeys.” They serve as three wheels of cheap convenience. For half the price of a taxi, two people can turn a half hour [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Travel on Oct 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
All places have their oddities, annoyances and delights. China should be different from no other place, yet perhaps because it is such a land of contrasts; peasants bicycling mountains of recycle on a 12 lane rush hour highway, as traffic honks its way past a hodge-podge of Soviet concrete boxes lost amidst the wild spring [...]
Posted in Culture, Travel on Oct 10th, 2008 No Comments »
The Vancouver International Airport is a marvel of art and engineering, waterfalls and environment sounds, soaring curving roofs and glassy mazes that are completely in contrast to American cattle corrider and utilititian squares.
Water sounds and saltwater smells greet the weary traveler as they enter the great hall of immigration. It is soft and inviting, and [...]
Posted in Culture, Curiosity, Travel on Oct 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Somewhere on the road between Wuyi Shan and Jiuhua Shan there was a town that involved in a bus change. It was the summer of 2005. Anwei Province Chinese summer hot, with a roasting heat that vied with the humidity and gritty air. Restrooms in Chinese bus stations are by definition a moment of endurance. [...]
Posted in China, Culture, Travel, Wellness on Sep 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Gratitude is the first thing that comes to mind.
The splash of summer flowers spilling out into a sidewalk draped in September blue sky.
The smell of vegetables off gassing fecund fields.
Travelers and locals allowing life, for a moment, to unwind outside the their usually consensual reality.
Seasons of salmon gray rain that warp time with its incessant [...]
Posted in Acupuncture, Culture, Curiosity, Health, Herbs, Language, Wellness on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
There is a method of telling fortunes in Taiwan. Actually, there are many methods of telling fortunes in Taiwan. 算命先生 fortune tellers in Taiwan are as numerous as psychotherapists in any trendy west coast American city, and for the most part serve the same function. Which is to help us ask the questions that get [...]
Posted in Culture, Curiosity, Wellness on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Of course, we all do.
Dreams elude us.
Troubles dog us..
Inspiration evaporates into drudgery…
I suspect John Dane knows a thing or two about following a journey to its guiding star. He has been trying to get into the Olympics for 40 years.
He is now in Qingdao competing!
John Dane 加油啦！
Thanks to 37signals for the lead to this inspiring [...]