All posts filed under ‘Germany’

New place

On a quiet side street on the north side of the city. Similar to your window in Brooklyn, the apartment has a balcony facing a red brick spice factory. Our first meal in the small kitchen was your pasta. And now, at 4 a.m., I finally turned in the subtitle translation for a documentary. Good […]

the awakening of hibernating insects

Last weekend, during our phone conversation, my mother mentioned the awakening of insects, that is, 驚蟄, the 3rd solar term. (Is such a calendar valid on the tropical island of Taiwan?) It reminded me of one spring when I was sitting in my advisor’s office at the Department of Anthropology in Taipei, talking about my […]