Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Cleaning the Closet
I was looking for a map of Shanghai in the hallway closet and found unexpected gems. This closet is full of antique mysterious flotsam. I tossed maps and souvenirs of places forgotten with time. Exhumed ancient mementos. Cleansed binders of scholarly pursuits of yore. I was pleased to find my very first Chinese lessons from 1992. Since I wrote everything like it sounded to me back then, I had fun trying to interpret my notes. I discovered a poem that I just re-learned this year. I remembered learning a song but hadn't heard it since and couldn't remember the name. Just considered it a casualty of time. Found the song in my notes and then on the net. I remembered the melody as being pretty and find that my opinion hasn't changed. Here it is. It's a little jazzier than the version I learned but the melody is basically the same.
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