2024-05-04 World Give Day

【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The lines are straight and swift between the stars.

        The night is not the cradle that they cry,

        The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase.

        The lines are much too dark and much too sharp.

     &nbs

2024-05-04 National Bird Day

【Invective Against Swans (1923)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks

        And far beyond the discords of the wind.

        A bronze rain from the sun descending marks

        The death of summer, which that ti

2024-05-04 Kentucky Derby

【The Plot Against the Giant - Third Girl (1917)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Oh, la…le pauvre!

        I shall run before him,

        With a curious puffing.

        He will bend his ear then.

        I shall whisper

        H

2023-08-30 National Toasted Marshmallow Day

16-Day|6-Port Canada-Greenland by Caribbean Princess

(“公主·勇者”号16天|6个景地之旅 08/14/2023—08/30/2023)

【Desiderata (1927)】

Max Ehrmann (1872-1945)

(Stanza 9 of 9)

         With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,

         it is still a beautiful world.

         Be cheerful.

         Strive to be happy.

—— • —— • —— •

2022-09-10 National TV Dinner Day

【Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction—It Must Give Pleasure·III (1942)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

         A lasting visage in a lasting bush,

         A face of stone in an unending red,

         Red-emerald, red-slitted-blue, a face of slate,

         An ancient forehead hung with heavy hair,

2022-05-16 National Love A Tree Day

【The Man with the Blue Guitar·XXIX (1937)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        In the cathedral, I sat there, and read,

        Alone, a lean Review and said,

        "These degustations in the vaults

        Oppose the past and the festival.

 &n

2022-03-20 March Equinox

【The Man with the Blue Guitar·V (1937)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

        Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,

        Of the torches wisping in the underground,

        Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light.

        There are no shadows in our sun

2022-01-23 National Pie Day

【Peter Quince at the Clavier·III (1915)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            Soon, with a noise like tambourines,

            Came her attendant Byzantines.

          &nbs

2021-11-28 Red Planet Day

【Nostalgis (1972)】

Guangzhong Yu (1928—2017)

            When I was young, 

            Nostalgia was a tiny stamp, 

            Me on this side, 

            Mother on the other side.

     &nbs

2021-10-09 International Beer and Pizza Day

【The Soul of the Sunflower (1881)】

Sarah O. Jewett (1849—1909)

                 The warm sun kissed the earth

                 To consecrate thy birth,

                 And from his close embrace

                 Thy radiant face

            &nbs

2018-06-17

【Aiden in English】

        I still remember walking into that summer camp without hopes of having fun—a dreary, rainy day with no inkling of sunlight. Then, I picked up a yo-yo. I can’t say I was impressed or interested in having a long-term contract with the yo-yo culture, but the people convinced me to join the yet-to-be-formed club. 

        It’s a sad day for all, although I can’t say it wasn’t

2015-03-07

【Aiden in English】

        "The sunset is magnificent as dusk is approaching." The older you get, the more valuable life is. Life at this point isn’t just about living with happiness but keeping the quality with a strong, courageous heart as the ending creeps closer daily. In contrast, we are immature, like young, naive kids, and think life is long and tedious. However, when another year goes by, it seems shorter than before.  

2015-03-01

【Aiden in English】

        Today, I just went to a piano audition for the Golden Key Music Festival of USA in Princeton, NJ, where I played Sonata in G Major, Op—49 No. 2 1^st Movement by Beethoven. I didn’t write about it because there wasn’t much to mention. I was nervous, and my judge took forever to write her comments about the previous performance. But I don’t want to talk about it, in case of jinxing me.

        Afte

2014-11-08

【Aiden in English】

        I have never thought much about the future and just let it happen. Yet today, when Dad took me to Princeton University, I began thinking about what I would become in ten years. Where will I be in the future?

        Dad showed me one of the many places I could be growing up. Princeton Univ. seems to be around the corner near home simultaneously. 

        Before going to Princeton, the closest thi

2014-07-12

【Aiden in English】

        The beach becomes one of the best places to be during the summer. The cool water is perfect for a hot day. However, that was not the case when Dad and I visited the Ocean City, NJ beach. The water was freezing! It seemed like swimming in the Arctic Ocean. I didn't stay long since I was afraid to catch a cold, and today wasn't hot enough to swim in the Atlantic Ocean.

        We went to the boardwalk instead. Eve

2013-09-01

        距离秋季开学还有最后一个周末，已经享受两个半月夏令生活的孩子们丝毫没有放缓脚步的念头，相反他们卯足力气，试图抓紧现有机会跟时间赛跑。虽说放假是玩，上学也是玩，但玩的范围受到极大限制，玩的级别亦从全职转向业余，心中难免有点失落，因此在迎接新学年到来之际，信步“三万里河东入海”，跋涉“五千仞岳上摩天”，游山玩水显得别有意义。

        闺蜜家蒙蒙和浩浩继续朝美国中西部红色州大齿杨山(Aspen Mtn, Colorado)腹内地进发,落

2013-06-23

      位于新泽西(意指“新草”)州卡姆登“曲谷”(Camden)的探险水族馆是附近规模最大的州级海洋博物馆，恰好座落在费城(希腊语“兄弟友爱”)对面。周末从城外我家出门，如果交通顺畅，我们驱车直入，通过自由地主(Franklin)大桥，穿越宾州─新州两州交界处的好战者河，不出个把钟头便可抵达这个倍受婴幼年儿童欢喜的地方。

      的确，无论从内景设计还是就活动空间来说，探险水族馆非常适宜婴幼年儿童智力发育，深受三、四岁以下孩子们的欢迎。再加上宾州冬季寒冷，岁月显得特别漫长，常常给户外活动

2012-09-01

        宾州东部夹在新泽西(意指“新草”)州、特拉华(意指“好战”)州之间，只有很小的地盘与大西洋接壤，完全不及其它两个州有诸多像模像样的海滨沙滩，任你春来赏雾，夏来玩海，秋来戏潮，冬来观浪，因此每逢孩子放假之际，我们忍不住上窜下跳，不惜驱车一、两个钟头，变着法子赶去邻州海边聊解心头夙愿。

        就拿我们熟悉的新州来说，大西洋沿岸各处海边多由带有障壁作用的堰洲岛组成，狭长的砂岩体凸出水面，并沿着海岸平行延伸。堰洲岛内侧形成海岸泻湖的水道平缓，嗜盐植被繁衍