78 years old!

 

grateful for all the blessings extravagantly provided.

and, as HOM reminds me, supremely grateful that this is where we meet and get married and (for a time) bring up our children.

spring garb

the old neighborhood is looking very pretty these days, as long as you don't think about the electricity bill.

afternoon joe

cuppa-to-go, from the stall run by the eager young man who wins my business with his enthusiastic solicitousness and courteous enthusiasm.

the coffee's not bad too.

simple pleasure

solo lunch from DDD as HOM goes to attend a talk. just me and the sashimi and my laptop.

with no offence to HOM, i do savor my one-person meals.

luvverly.

modern campaigns that we need

• no spitting in public 
• turn down the video volume on public transport
• or use headphones
• do not conduct 'phone conversations on the bus
• no littering (yeah, a rehash of the old one)

a crowded noisy week winds down.

sunday thoughts from rev. 4

holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!

worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.

how terribly awful is God on his throne

how impossibly perfect and unreachably holy

how amazing that i may approach Him

and say abba, father!

breakneck - dan wang (2025)

why i love this: it is as close to a chinese account of china as i can get in the english language. his insight on china being engineering-driven and america being lawyerly is fresh and largely convincing. his description of the lot of middle-aged chinese immigrants in u.s. suburbia is pretty much spot on.

why i take this with a pinch of salt: he is young and it shows and his bias is american and it shows. having lived through an attempt at zero-covid myself i think his description is quasi-accurate and the emotional impact may potentially be a little exaggerated. 

nevertheless this is a thought-provoking and well written book that actually has a different thought per chapter, unlike many books that struggle to say something fresh after chapter 2.