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Recently, I keep having a sense of self-expression, so here I’m. Will share some random stuff I found while my study in college and travel either in English or Chinese. The rule of thumb is that I will choose the one I feel comfortable with, and speak out my thoughts or emotions directly.

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Elements of Nature

“Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature’s sources never fail.”

-John Muir on Yosemite

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“Taking Woodstock”

Really glad this movie is made by our Chinese director, Ang Lee!! “Rock and roll can never die”

Oh yeah!!!!! Feel the freeeeeee🤘

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读朔爷《我讨厌的词》一文

此文描述了一群人感染了名为西洋化的病毒。此病毒携带者发病症状多为：为达思想之深，言必称外国名人儿或者文艺人士（张爱玲，王家卫），吃穿用的都是些西洋玩意儿。此慢性乃至永久性疾病可以带给人们优越感。一些人谎称自己染上此种病毒，俗称这些人在装逼。

审视我近期随笔及购买物件（每日咖啡，黑胶唱片，梵高作品展门票，等等），经鉴定我多是患了此疾病。是不是真换上了还难辨。

此文绝如醍醐灌顶，为避免留给人矫情做作的形象，往后我少以他物来标榜自己，要是真喜欢这玩意儿，还是多静下心来欣赏与思考为好。

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记最后一次外卖

吃完担担面，正要收拾时，发现餐盒包装袋几乎要占满整个桌子。卖家把调料和面分装，用得还是材质很好的塑料包装，不可想象，我一个人一顿饭竟然制造这么多白色垃圾，实为惭愧。要还想保留地球上的自然风光，咱也甭提为了什么下一代的远大目标。就近几十年，我不想下一次去Glacier National Park时，冰川又消退了很多，hiking的风景也会大不如前。就算是为了下一代，想象一下，如果我带孩子去，我并不想跟他说妈妈很多年前来过这里，冰川还近在咫尺，可是现在因为全球变暖，我们看不到了。而我也是其中罪责难逃的一份子，为了避免羞愧，我不要吃外卖了！

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我的故乡

我的中国，每次回去我感觉你越发变得喧闹且粗俗，已全无当年文学和诗歌里所描述的美好。街道上瞬间多了黄色的自行车，没有人再会去掏出钱包买东西，大家都在歌颂信息时代的便利。我却还沉浸在木心《从前慢》的日子里。当我要从兜里掏出硬币时，我顿时感觉我成了中国社会的弃儿。如今商厦里赤裸裸的叫卖声和保养品店员里的尾随，全无当年胡同商人吆喝的好嗓子和得体，在我看来完全是城市垃圾。祖国，你飞快的走，可曾看到身后的人。城市里，到处是临街而睡的工人， 因为这些人在工作时完全没有安身之所。这些你都看到了吗？

我一直怀着赤子之心。当我，赤裸裸得走在街道上，一不留神，就被地铁站里碰瓷人冷漠的眼神如剑一般刺痛，那种痛一直给我弥久的扎心感。

我一次次说不想回去看你，好像无情得背叛了你。可是，我何曾不期待你日新月异后的沉淀，多少次在梦里回到北京说不尽的春秋与冬夏。我的祖国母亲，原谅年轻人背井离乡的心，那颗寻求新的刺激与美好的心。也请你包容我，我全无要改变你容颜，做时代领航者的雄心。是，我很自私，你养育了我，我却分文未报，为此我羞愧难当。我只想做你的旁观者，与朋友相谈时讲讲你的好与不好。暂别了祖国，等我们都变得更美好，再相约一叙。这一等，会是半个世纪吗，当我垂垂老矣之时？

PC: my elementary school friend

The following are all the traditional Beijing food, that I always love.

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Field of Poppies, Giverny, 1885 Claude Monet

I love this painting so much. Here is the reorganized notes that I took when I was in front of this painting:

Calmness! The bright but not dazzling colors and equal spread and alignment of the grasslands, the poppies, trees, hills and the sky bring out the tranquility of the scene. 

Here comes with the random thought in Chinese:

斜处的阳光，

缀满了草丛,

屋舍的墙壁变得粉嫩，

树绿得越发油亮。

在这无风的日子里，

任何事情都不会发生。

你让我听远处山峦和海水的呢喃，

望着花开得正旺，

这是一个绝好的午后，

我们相依在长满罂粟花的田野上，

一起等待日落的到来。

---- 观莫奈画作有感，于四月七日2018.

I feel so intimately Monet shows his appreciation and love of natural landscape in his paintings. His choice of color and brush patterns for portraying the natural sunlight and wind delivers a natural and vibrant effect. I feel so calm and quiet when I see his painting, which adds the joy of life. 

More information about this paintings:

“This is one of four paintings of poppy fields that Monet completed during the summer of 1885 in Giverny, where the artists resided from 1883 until his death almost forty-five years later. The painting illustrated a change in Monet’s technique, which occurred in the 1880s: he consciously treats the landscape as a vehicle for opposing bands of colors – red, green, and blue. He may have added to the painting in the studio in order to unify the surface. The painting received widespread recognition at its United States premiere in 1886 and was one of Monet’s first works purchased by and American collector.”-- VFMA museum. 

“Giverny lies approximately fifty miles from Paris, along the southern edge of the French region of Normandy. Moving to Giverrny in April 1883, Monet at firt rented and in 1890 purchased the pink stucco house, Le Pressoir. Field of Poppies, Giverny, is one of four paintings of poppy fields that Monet completed during the summer of 1885. Monet quite likely set up his easel in a field near his hourse to capture the scene. The home appears in the middle distance, and to the right of these buildings is the future site of the artist’s studio, where he painted his famous water lily canvases. “ -- The Frick Museum.

Cite:

https://www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8150864/

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The Music Garden--- a documentary of Yo-Yo Ma recreation of unaccompanied cello suite No. 1.

Yo-Yo Ma initiated the idea of building a garden that is inspired by Bach. Throughout his collaboration with a landscape architecture, Julie Moir Messervy, and other artists, he sought out for inspiration through the objects in the nature and some relative dance steps. The link below explains the details of this Toronto Music garden’s landscape design. 

http://www.harbourfrontcentre.com/venues/torontomusicgarden/

This film documents the fundraising process of Yo-Yo and Julie lecturing their concepts to governors, financiers and bureaucrats. It is also accompanied by Yo-Yo’s exploration through playing the cello in the garden and in the music garden’s construction site. It is really beautiful moment when Yo-Yo plays cello, flowers, plants and even butterflies are surrounded. He forms a proactive relationship to the surrounding environment, and his music will come out differently. 

Yo-Yo’s aspiration for his artistic concept really inspires me. His sincerity and dedication really stay still. 

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Revisited “Before Sunrise”. It was literally what I love, especially the boy looking gaze from Jesse.

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Ironically, found this poem from a Chinese variety show. Anyway, that’s not the point I want to make. This poem was written by a Finland poet, Edith Sodergran. She depicted this full of contentment and happiness mood that mostly described my understanding of my life. That sense of happiness and optimism should always hold throughout whether at the peak of heydays or not. That leads me to think about what type of person I wish for my partner. He should hold a great joy and appreciation of life. When we both are able to find out the positive side of the things around us, our life will always be illuminated by each other.