Notices by Will Buckingham | 白忠修 (willbuckingham@zirk.us)

@liztai I really love this. And I love all that code-switching. Here in Taiwan, often sentences are mash-ups of Mandarin and Hokkien, with the odd English word thrown in. It gives things a rumbustious getting-by, communication-is-the-thing kind of feel. The more I get used to it, the more I dare to speak my rudimentary Hokkien, because I know when it inevitably fails, I can throw in bits of Mandarin, and that's cool. And when my Mandarin fails, I throw in bits of English, and that's cool too.

For the rest of this morning, I'm going to read Zhuangzi. This, apparently, is my job, or part of it. I can't help thinking that Zhuangzi himself would have found this hilarious.

#zhuangzi #philosophy

@davebonta I've not read it yet. I know there are quite a few folks who don't like his Zhuangzi. What do you make of it?

Every morning, I make two cups of tea, carry them to the bedroom, push open the door, pick up the door wedge with the toes of my right foot, and - using only my foot - prop the door open without spilling any tea. And this tiny, trivial, everyday skill brings me immense joy.