Night Owl Sonata (in one movement)

Thirty three

I took Ziri to the park. She was delighted. When I told her how I enjoyed the pungent, sweet aroma of freshly cut grass, smelling the colour green and Spring,...

Thirty three

I took Ziri to the park. She was delighted. When I told her how I enjoyed the pungent, sweet aroma of freshly cut grass, smelling the colour green and Spring,...

Thirty two

So you think you know the Japanese cherry tree. Its smooth, greyish, glossy bark with horizontal cut lenticels carries such a shiny, silver-like quality, that your hand could not resist...

Thirty two

So you think you know the Japanese cherry tree. Its smooth, greyish, glossy bark with horizontal cut lenticels carries such a shiny, silver-like quality, that your hand could not resist...

Thirty one

I didn’t know Walker Evans also drew. I celebrate his photographs as much as Anastasia’s. Is pink the colour of Florida? Seems authentic, but I also saw blue, rusty red,...

Thirty one

I didn’t know Walker Evans also drew. I celebrate his photographs as much as Anastasia’s. Is pink the colour of Florida? Seems authentic, but I also saw blue, rusty red,...

Thirty

You always remember your friends, from the years of acquaintances, east or west, across the North Atlantic or North Pacific, and regardless of the distance in time or space, all...

Thirty

You always remember your friends, from the years of acquaintances, east or west, across the North Atlantic or North Pacific, and regardless of the distance in time or space, all...

Twenty nine

Want to remain anonymous? She still claims them–these books, which she ordered through a book outlet at an unbelievable price–she jots down a date on each of them: Aug 2022....

Twenty nine

Want to remain anonymous? She still claims them–these books, which she ordered through a book outlet at an unbelievable price–she jots down a date on each of them: Aug 2022....

Twenty eight

Iris and I made our first turnip cake in our life! It’s no big deal Iris said, but to me it’s an achievement. I always thought this work belongs to...

Twenty eight

Iris and I made our first turnip cake in our life! It’s no big deal Iris said, but to me it’s an achievement. I always thought this work belongs to...

Twenty Seven

Nian eats livestock, crops and attacks people on new year’s eve. The next day, if we find ourselves still alive, we must celebrate. We must eat to our hearts’ delight....

Twenty Seven

Nian eats livestock, crops and attacks people on new year’s eve. The next day, if we find ourselves still alive, we must celebrate. We must eat to our hearts’ delight....

Twenty Six

I used to run away from Nian, that annoying beast never failed to show up year after year. Loathing the formalities of visiting elders, contemptuous of congratulating people on their...

Twenty Six

I used to run away from Nian, that annoying beast never failed to show up year after year. Loathing the formalities of visiting elders, contemptuous of congratulating people on their...

Twenty Five

We want books, more than ever, but in fact we cannot have more books (our walls are fully lined with bookshelves and they are super heavy), and if we do...

Twenty Five

We want books, more than ever, but in fact we cannot have more books (our walls are fully lined with bookshelves and they are super heavy), and if we do...

Twenty Four

Listening to Lydia Davis’s Essays One I suddenly miss Hemingway so from the bedroom table I fetch A Moveable Feast, a book I still haven’t finished and left a bookmark...

Twenty Four

Listening to Lydia Davis’s Essays One I suddenly miss Hemingway so from the bedroom table I fetch A Moveable Feast, a book I still haven’t finished and left a bookmark...

Twenty three

Let me describe to you a curb side garden - our humble front porch built with the help of a few good friends, V, B and T. Right in front...

Twenty three

Let me describe to you a curb side garden - our humble front porch built with the help of a few good friends, V, B and T. Right in front...

Twenty two

Seeing beauty in a storm, you sketch, braid and crochet for two enduring years you throw out a life-affirming net, it’s a road map of your arteries, blood cells with...

Twenty two

Seeing beauty in a storm, you sketch, braid and crochet for two enduring years you throw out a life-affirming net, it’s a road map of your arteries, blood cells with...

Twenty one

My friend EC is a sojourner, he’s from St. Catharines, a city in Niagara Region in Ontario Canada. In the mid-nineties we met in Hong Kong through photography, and now,...

Twenty one

My friend EC is a sojourner, he’s from St. Catharines, a city in Niagara Region in Ontario Canada. In the mid-nineties we met in Hong Kong through photography, and now,...

Twenty

My father was a sojourner, who went away and never came back. In my lexicon I have a different feeling for the term, father means farther, distant and unfamiliar, remote...

Twenty

My father was a sojourner, who went away and never came back. In my lexicon I have a different feeling for the term, father means farther, distant and unfamiliar, remote...

Nineteen

To write, from one language to another, is like migration. The journey is long and arduous. I think, reason and seek solutions with the same mind, I clear a path...

Nineteen

To write, from one language to another, is like migration. The journey is long and arduous. I think, reason and seek solutions with the same mind, I clear a path...

Eighteen

I dreamed that at the end of my days I decided to migrate. I sold all my possessions, bade farewell to my closest family and friends - the few still...

Eighteen

I dreamed that at the end of my days I decided to migrate. I sold all my possessions, bade farewell to my closest family and friends - the few still...

Seventeen

Go and stay, go and return. To go or to stay, to be or not to be. Humans learn to be migratory without really studying the birds. Our earliest ancestors...

Seventeen

Go and stay, go and return. To go or to stay, to be or not to be. Humans learn to be migratory without really studying the birds. Our earliest ancestors...

Sixteen

Both Branson and Bezos migrated from planet Earth to land the Karman line, for a long three minutes they floated at the edge of space, experiencing weightlessness, God and the...

Sixteen

Both Branson and Bezos migrated from planet Earth to land the Karman line, for a long three minutes they floated at the edge of space, experiencing weightlessness, God and the...

Fifteen

Reflecting on the two ideas of migration, which served two chapters in Ruth Padel’s book We are all from somewhere else: Go and Stay, Go and come back, the notion...

Fifteen

Reflecting on the two ideas of migration, which served two chapters in Ruth Padel’s book We are all from somewhere else: Go and Stay, Go and come back, the notion...

Fourteen

What is there to say about Africa, the second largest continent of the world, people of the richest colour, running the world’s longest river; Blue Nile, White Nile, Lake Albert,...

Fourteen

What is there to say about Africa, the second largest continent of the world, people of the richest colour, running the world’s longest river; Blue Nile, White Nile, Lake Albert,...

Thirteen

After a series of menacing thunder roars, the rain comes down. Consolable. It sounds just like an intense rainy day in Hong Kong, pinging splattering against the windows as I...

Thirteen

After a series of menacing thunder roars, the rain comes down. Consolable. It sounds just like an intense rainy day in Hong Kong, pinging splattering against the windows as I...

Twelve

Every ten days I’m scribbling down some analog thoughts in a black leatherette Journal, which has 200 white ruled pages, each carrying 30 lines and Smyth sewn-bound to lay flat...

Twelve

Every ten days I’m scribbling down some analog thoughts in a black leatherette Journal, which has 200 white ruled pages, each carrying 30 lines and Smyth sewn-bound to lay flat...

Eleven

We've become the torchbearer for the kingdom of IM. So the story goes that one fine morning in 2021, we woke up with clear blue sky and light wind landed...

Eleven

We've become the torchbearer for the kingdom of IM. So the story goes that one fine morning in 2021, we woke up with clear blue sky and light wind landed...

Ten

What day is it today, I ask April, is it Thursday? Both are wrong April says, it’s Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, Thursday comes after Wednesday, Thursday is kitty litter day...

Ten

What day is it today, I ask April, is it Thursday? Both are wrong April says, it’s Monday, tomorrow is Tuesday, Thursday comes after Wednesday, Thursday is kitty litter day...

Nine

My old man made me a porcupine hair toothpick he dug out from his old props box, while admiring its beauty and function, we sat enjoying the mid-day sun by...

Nine

My old man made me a porcupine hair toothpick he dug out from his old props box, while admiring its beauty and function, we sat enjoying the mid-day sun by...

Eight

Who would forget this bold image by Kai Chan, a mix media work he produced almost twenty years ago, challenging our eyes and mind with the contrasting colours of emperor...

Eight

Who would forget this bold image by Kai Chan, a mix media work he produced almost twenty years ago, challenging our eyes and mind with the contrasting colours of emperor...

Seven

My recent memory of many retired memories are in the form of untouchable papers, in P-P-P: reborn pixels of Polaroids, Postcards and Photographs, reading them on computer screens, in open...

Seven

My recent memory of many retired memories are in the form of untouchable papers, in P-P-P: reborn pixels of Polaroids, Postcards and Photographs, reading them on computer screens, in open...

Six

Gerry and Marcie live in a paranoid small town where they avoid the community and prefer the warmth, beauty and tranquility inside their lovely Victorian home with a legion of...

Six

Gerry and Marcie live in a paranoid small town where they avoid the community and prefer the warmth, beauty and tranquility inside their lovely Victorian home with a legion of...

Five

She was two and I was thirty two, both loved to sing and dance and jump and make up stories, and I gave her picture cards, I gave her banana,...

Five

She was two and I was thirty two, both loved to sing and dance and jump and make up stories, and I gave her picture cards, I gave her banana,...

Four

As the years grow, memories on the wane, and like receding hair-lines, her subjectivity, perceptibly, begins to dwindle and loses most of its edges. For more than twenty years, she...

Four

As the years grow, memories on the wane, and like receding hair-lines, her subjectivity, perceptibly, begins to dwindle and loses most of its edges. For more than twenty years, she...

Three

Walking side by side with him in my wool blend trench coat I have the strange feeling of being in the unforgettable long take Béla Tarr took of Irimiás and...

Three

Walking side by side with him in my wool blend trench coat I have the strange feeling of being in the unforgettable long take Béla Tarr took of Irimiás and...

Two

Today’s great find is a website dedicated to tree tours in Toronto. As a city dweller from a former city built of cement, steel and glass she finds herself so...

Two

Today’s great find is a website dedicated to tree tours in Toronto. As a city dweller from a former city built of cement, steel and glass she finds herself so...

One

Some nights while we lay unsleeping we would talk about the distant past, eager to find a shared memory, for example the exact time and circumstance how we met, the...

One

Some nights while we lay unsleeping we would talk about the distant past, eager to find a shared memory, for example the exact time and circumstance how we met, the...