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 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 | Nov 16, 2020 | Blog, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Day 299. Finally, a weekend worth remembering — however bittersweet the cause. Shaolin’s Salsa5 club is closed, the only international world-class Salsa club in our city, and our good friend and fantastic dance teacher Luis Castro from Cuba packed up his apartment. We...
by jorahkai | Nov 8, 2020 | Blog, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
“Abash’d the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is,” John Milton begins in Paradise Lost. However, you might recognize it more recently by T-Bird’s final words in Brandon Lee’s cult classic film, The Crow. I’ve been hearing this voice echoing in my head a lot...
by jorahkai | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China, Jorah Kai
Day 284. I wake up in a daze as my wrist buzzes and my alarm chimes through the heavy filters of my earplugs. It’s 6:30 AM on Friday. I roll out of bed, stumble into my slippers, and creep so as not to wake Shaolin to the bathroom. I wash my face, brush my...
by jorahkai | Oct 21, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
If I told you five years ago that in 2020, China, because of it’s ‘heavy-handed authoritarianism’ as the West likes to call it (as opposed to the flaming-hot Trumpster fire over there) or particularly useful sense of order and harmony amongst citizens and their almost...
