by jorahkai | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Yesterday I left home to get some groceries,” says a Revel Alliance member named Emily, in our chat, looking to share a horrible experience. We were there for her, as we always are for each other. It’s why I made the group. “I went to the Kowloon Market in my...
by jorahkai | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
“These are the characteristics of the rational soul: self-awareness, self-examination, and self-determination. It reaps its own harvest.. . . It succeeds in its own purpose . . .” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations CPAC and republican America is embracing nazi fascism...
by jorahkai | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
“All cruelty springs from weakness”, Seneca says. It’s been a tough year to champion China’s COVID response because Netizens have been bombarded with endless negative propaganda, often from conservative, far-right corners funded by the...
by jorahkai | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m finishing a book, walking around the buffet, but everyone’s waiting in lines, and I’ve got this empty plate … I just don’t feel the need for anything because I have enough already. “I’m hungry,” Shaolin says and finds the live shrimp tank with a weave basket in...
by jorahkai | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. -Epictetus Many parts of the planet saw unusually cold weather this week. Folks were ice skating on Amsterdam canals, and skiing down Moscow streets. Students at the University of Damascus in...
by jorahkai | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
Somewhere in the vast darkness known as the great silence was a most remarkable thing. Although they were quite an arduous, wasteful, and inefficient lot, there was a conglomeration of atoms contemplating other atoms. At one particularly trying point in...
by jorahkai | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Birds flying high, you know how I feel Sun in the sky, you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by, you know how I feel It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life for me and I’m feeling good ...
by jorahkai | Jan 18, 2021 | Chongqing, China, Jorah Kai
Day 352. The first five days of 2021 were peaceful. Trump hid in the White House. I did my part by ignoring his ugly mug and the news in general. I focused on my life in front of me, existing minimally online. These winter days passed in a simple, joyous haze, like...
by jorahkai | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Buenos Aires, Argentina
By Josette, Buenos Aires, Argentina Hello world, It’s me. It’s been a long time, I know. Remember that girl all the way in Buenos Aires? I’m still here. It’s now January 2021 – a full year really into this virus business. What can I tell you?...
by jorahkai | Dec 31, 2020 | Blog, Chongqing, China
Day 343 of my pandemic. As we look back upon the year and all of the surprises it brought to us, it is interesting to remember all of the twists and turns I documented as I flip back through a diary that is in the range of 800 pages and 280,000 words long, covers six...
