by jorahkai | Sep 4, 2020 | Blog, Blog1, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
I was asked this summer, after my birthday, around mid August, to go up to Nan San (mountain) and perform something with Chongqing’s most famous and prestigious painter, Master Feng, famous for his paintings of grapes. I wasn’t really sure what it would be...
by jorahkai | Aug 30, 2020 | Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Saturday, August 29 – Burn Night By Jorah Kai CHONGQING, CHINA We made a pyre, and we set it alight. Shaolin said her prayers to the ancestors that have passed on, and I thought about everything I’ve ever burned and how it brought me to a street corner on...
by jorahkai | Aug 19, 2020 | Asia, Blog, Blog1, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Wednesday, August 19 – Chongqing Floods Grow Daily Chongqing is flooding and reaching record levels as the Chinese government calls this a millennium flood year. Tourist site Hongyadong is closed and the Sheraton Hotel on Nanbin Lu has more than a foot over...
by jorahkai | Aug 18, 2020 | Asia, Blog, Blog2, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Tuesday, August 18 – Spark Joy or Die By Jorah Kai CHONGQING, CHINA Day 211. Another hot summer day engulfs us in the historic furnace of China, where 40 degrees Celsius is average, and it often gets to face-blistering temperatures in the mid-’40s. Lately...
by jorahkai | Aug 8, 2020 | Blog, Blog1, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Saturday, August 8 – How Sweet It Is By Jorah Kai CHONGQING, CHINA Day 201 of the pandemic that changed the world. I turn 41 tomorrow. This is a little one between the epic milestone of “turning 40” and the phenomenally profound Adamsian “42nd birthday.” I...
by jorahkai | Aug 6, 2020 | Asia, Blog1, Chongqing, China, Contributors, Jorah Kai
Thursday, August 6 – Close the Schools, Save the Children By Jorah Kai CHONGQING, CHINA Day 199. Herman Cain is dead, long live Herman Cain. His life was large, but his death from COVID-19, coming on the heels of his mask denialism and tied up in the crowded...
