Posts tagged all writing

elegy on a sunday morning

an elegy to my high school english teacher

childhood placeKening ZhuApril 28, 2020all writing

the japanese houses of grandfather buddhist priest

I have stayed inside this house so long that I feel like I was born here, amongst these books, and will die here, too.

japanKening ZhuApril 1, 2020japan, patrons, all writing, travel letters

fleeing europe

I fled Europe. exactly twenty four hours before Paris went into a full lockdown, I boarded a plane to Helsinki, then another to Osaka.

paris, nowhereKening ZhuMarch 19, 2020Paris, Kanazawa, patrons, all writing, travel letters

berlin, past present future

I found a quiet love for Berlin as soon as I arrived. love not because the city charmed me with its beauty, or seduced me with its pleasures and possibilities

berlinKening ZhuMarch 10, 2020berlin, patrons, all writing

10 ways of seeing London

I am going to tell you about London. tell you quickly before I forget, before this sensible world slips away from me — as worlds tend to do.

londonKening ZhuFebruary 22, 2020London, patrons, all writing, travel letters

bad things can happen to us

bad things can happen to us and maybe, we don’t know that they were bad. until much later. we struggle to find the words to describe them. we’ve misplaced our emotions - like anger, like outrage, like disgust - and instead we find ways to swallow the discomfort,

dark placeKening ZhuFebruary 13, 2020all writing

a map of my writing, by place