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 | 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...
by jorahkai | Dec 24, 2020 | Blog, Chongqing, China
Day 337 of my pandemic. It’s Christmas Eve, 2020, and we’ve almost made it through the year. A couple of days ago, on December 21, for Winter Solstice, I accompanied the Wang clan, my family, to the. River to look up into the sky and see the Christmas...
by jorahkai | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Day 325: Shakespeare gets vaccinated, while corruption and incompetence darken the horizon, but stars are shining light to guide us through the dark winter night. Day 325. What can I say that I haven’t said already before? While record numbers of vulnerable...
by jorahkai | Dec 3, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China
Day 317 of lockdown: Thanksgiving creates a wave within a wave in the USA, vaccines are approved and the pandemic grinds on. * * * December 4 — Gobble Gobble Day 317. When I first saw him, I thought of a vampire lord, idly formal in a pressed shirt and tie, somehow in...
by jorahkai | Nov 21, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China
When Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old woman, fell to her death from her balcony while six police officers entered her apartment during a domestic disturbance call, no one asked her opinion on gravity. Questions swirled around how the Toronto, Canada woman fell,...