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Monthly Archives: June 2010

A Canal to the Moon

Saturday, June 12, 2010

I’ve been sleeping with a song about the Erie Canal playing softly in the background every single night for the past week and a half. It’s a simple song, 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 is infinitely [...]

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Expectations of Memory

Saturday, June 5, 2010

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 velvet curtain and tall raggedy trees were littered sparsely along the [...]

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