August 8th, 2011 | Blog, Quotes, Chinese, confucious, proverb, roast duck
This old Chinese saying cracks me up every time…hope you enjoy it as much as I do 
Man must sit in chair
With mouth open for
Very long time
Before roast duck fly in
-Chinese proverb
May 11th, 2011
On our trip to Portland we stopped in a couple book stores and I picked up the book Ai Wei Wei With Milk in one of them. Ai Wei Wei has recently been disappeared in China and there have been demonstrations around the world to find out where he is. After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Ai Weiwei decided ...
February 2nd, 2011
Gong Xi Fa Chi! Welcome to the Year of the Rabbit. With February's dark moon comes the year of the rabbit, and we say good bye to the year of the tiger (which is also my year). So what does the rabbit symbolize? I confess, I immediately think fertility and think of millions of rabbits bouncing ar ...
February 14th, 2010
The Chinese Year of the Tiger begins on Valentines day this year, making it extra special in my book... 14/2/2010. I was born in the year of the tiger so I confess to being prejudiced in this area ;-). In honor of the upcoming New Year and because I was just going through an old folder full of some ...
November 22nd, 2009
I was given a special treat this year for my birthday--lunch out at the Sha Lin Noodle House in Vancouver, BC. They don't take reservations so we crowded into the doorway to get out of the rain and hovered hungrily over the nearest table, the wait wasn't long and we were soon seated with a great vie ...
July 28th, 2009
I had a strange experience the other day. I was in the shower and suddenly got a weird metallic feeling in my belly button. It seemed to originate from my navel piercing and shot upward towards my breastbone. It felt like the sound of a fingernail on a chalkboard and sent shock waves through my cell ...
July 22nd, 2009
Chinese philosophy holds that life force, or qi, comes from breath and food. I recently came across a very special book called The Feng Shui Cookbook: Creating Health and Harmony in Your Kitchen by Elizabeth Miles. Although this book is small and easy to overlook it is a very different breed th ...
July 21st, 2009
With the global mind shift moving into high gear, more people are getting interested in other ways to slow down and live consciously. As a result we are regaining respect for many things we had dismissed because we did not understand them. Using yarrow stalks to read the I Ching is one of these thin ...
