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Monthly Archives: June 2010

A Canal to the Moon

I’ve been sleeping with this song about the Erie Canal playing softly in the background every single night for the past week and a half. It’s a simple tune, but there’s something about her voice, or maybe it’s the melody or the lyrics or the guitar strumming — or all these things —  that’s comforting to [...]

Expectations of Memory

Thirteen years ago, four hours after departing from Shanghai, my dad and I stepped off a rickety train and onto a platform in Nanjing. The air was crowded and dense, heavy with the weight of summer. The sky hung over us like a grey curtain and littered sparsely along the dirt road in an erratic formation [...]