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Feng Shui: History, Traditional Significance, and Cultural Importance

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Feng Shui is the science of arranging your indoors so as to optimize the chi. It evolved to its maturity in Chinese culture. Its simple english translation is “wind and water”. The Chinese originally utilized it to make divine tombs for their ancestors and kings. As civilization advanced, the […]

Two Middling Poems: September Grass & The Stage

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Two Middling Poems:
September Grass
September Grass, always
Seems to have crickets
Ticking like clocks
(around their core)
And I can hear them
As I walk at twilight
Blurred, running through
The September Grass
I must have stepped
On a few in the dark
But they never stopped:
Ticking, ticking, counting
Time, time, time…
“What’re you dong?”
I asked the crickets…
They whispered
I heard them:
“A private celebration”
They were watching me!
Sight unseen, […]