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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
- Mar 9, 2014
- 1 min
Poetry is the unexpected stranger …
I’m drunk with words. My nephew, the artist and poet, is visiting with his family. We’ve been indulging in artsy-fartsy conversation,...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 3, 2013
- 1 min
Writers I Read: Trade the high-flying life for this …
We’re just back from remote Lugu Lake, Yunnan China where my friend Choo Wai Hong traded in her high-flying high-stress corporate...
Audrey Chin
- May 30, 2013
- 4 min
Why pray for the dying?
Have I prayed in vain? Wai’s funeral was yesterday, Ish’s more than a year ago now. Kwan is in a deep coma. There’s very little chance...
Audrey Chin
- Apr 8, 2013
- 2 min
The Difference between Religion and Spirit – A look through Burmese Lenses
Someone told me yesterday I was getting too religious and hence difficult to get along with. That certainly caused me to go look in the...
Audrey Chin
- Dec 15, 2012
- 2 min
What Happens when You don't Talk for 7 Days?
SILENCE! Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com Dani Batz’s photostream I’ve just returned from my 3rd retreat. When I first started...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 30, 2012
- 4 min
Mid-Autumn: Why on this night?
Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 27, 2012
- 2 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: A Singapore politician’s lesson in moon watching
Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camyluna 13th day of the 9th moon of the year of the water dragon.It’s raining again. Unless...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 26, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: When words fail, open the windows and breathe…
Full moon through stained glass Photo Credit: http://www.wilandra.com 12th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon … and what...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 25, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: Moon in Clouds
11th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon. Photo Credit: John Garozze http://www.jagwah.blogspot.com Tonight it was...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 24, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn: The Best Season of Your Life
10th day of the 8th month of the dragon year – a busy buzzy sort of day running around delivering Mid-Autumn gifts to friends and...
Audrey Chin
- Sep 22, 2012
- 1 min
Awaiting Mid-Autumn – New Moon
8th day of the 8th moon of the year of the Dragon. We start with the verses of the most unaccomplished – mine. Photo Credit:...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 17, 2011
- 1 min
Anyone Can Be a Poet…
Credit: Photo by Forest and Kim http://www.desert-tropicals.com Including me! One of my readers, Joe Bunting asked me to do a guest post...
Audrey Chin
- Nov 6, 2011
- 1 min
Flash of Lightning
Like any other big city, you can’t ever find a taxi at rush-hour in my city. And of course the buses don’t move when there’s gridlock....
Audrey Chin
- Oct 11, 2011
- 1 min
Hunger
We do this and we do that. We go here and we go there. But we’re never satisfied. What will give us rest?
Audrey Chin
- Aug 7, 2011
- 1 min
The Curious Arts of Animals
It’s taken me almost a lifetime to learn to sit and be with myself, to be aware of my now and to let go. Animals, they do it naturally...
Audrey Chin
- Aug 7, 2011
- 6 min
Looking Death in the Face
With each birthday, death becomes more forward. Good face days become fewer and farther apart. Death begins to make her presence felt...
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