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2014年8月17日星期日

An Orchestra Kitchen


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When the cooking finally started, I watched the show from my corner of the old oak table, the best seat in the house. The kitchen, like an orchestra, was tuning for its greatest concert of the year. Kettles whistled high C, pestles drummed, pots and pans "percussed" with gusto, only to be hushed by a shower of poppy seeds falling into an enamel pot.

2014年8月11日星期一

A 500 years old Message


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My husband points to a Polish inscription on an ancient wall. I struggle to translate for him, for this is Old Polish, the words of a renaissance scholar and humanist from the 16th century. I do my best: "Keep peace with all your neighbours and there will be no need for war". Here it is, a message some 500 years old, but one yet to be discovered by today's world leaders.