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do you speak Chinglish?

Daily life in China offers some interesting English signs and labels. 

Living in Singapore we came across them on menus and even shoes. (I once had a pair of Kickers--remember them?--yes, except mine, when you looked more closely--written in tiny writing around the eyelets were called "Knockers". I was mortified walking around school with a pair of "Knockers" on my feet.)

Anyway, I was delighted to find more examples in the NYT today. 

If you find yourself in China, here's some to start you...

Logorama (the oscar winning short)

saw this at the theateralong with the other oscar nominated shorts

i kind of hated it

mostly because i thought it didn't have heart

but clearly i missed something because it won

what do you think?

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the children have spoken... (+ they LOVE piggies!)

BEING A PIG IS NICE

is indeed VERY nice just heard... it's on the CBC/IRA 2010 Children's Choice list! (The CBC/IRA Children's Choice List is a collection of approx 100 titles chosen by CHILDREN each year.)



No better judge! (in my book).





Oh. Look. Here's the trailer...







QUICK! rush and get your copy



More info about the CBC/IRA Children's Choice List: here.

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Embrace Life!

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David Suchet narrates latest JSB animated video: # 23

(no need to add a code, just hit ENTER and it'll play)

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writing, like praying, is listening...

"Books surprise me. They don't do what I expect. They know more than I do, and my job is to listen. Not to control or dominate or manipulate, but to listen: listen to the story in the same way that when I pray I try to listen to God--to get out of the way and to listen." 

Madeleine L'Engle

Do you write a story or discover it? Are you the one in charge of the characters or are they in charge of you? 

Believing as Madeleine L'Engle does that it's not about control and more about trust, I think...

writing, like praying, is listening...

"Books surprise me. They don't do what I expect. They know more than I do, and my job is to listen. Not to control or dominate or manipulate, but to listen: listen to the story in the same way that when I pray I try to listen to God--to get out of the way and to listen." 

Madeleine L'Engle

Do you write a story or discover it? Are you the one in charge of the characters or are they in charge of you?



Believing as Madeleine L'Engle does that it's not about control and more about trust, I...

clearest, truest words

Ann Lamott, author of the brilliant book, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, said: "If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses don't go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining."

Bonhoeffer--The Thriller

Here's a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young Lutheran theologian in Hitler's Germany who was an early and constant voice of resistance against the Third Reich and who was executed for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler. It's called Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. Not only is it completely brilliant, but it reads like a thriller. Not only that, but it also happens to have been written by my dear friend, Eric Metaxas.



It's already being...

working or making a living?

"Work is not primarily a thing one does to live but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God."
—Dorothy L Sayers

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