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AUDREY CHIN
Award winning Asian writer and reader of the Libra Mundi
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Audrey Chin
Mar 9, 20141 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, 20131 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, 20134 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, 20132 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, 20122 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, 20124 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, 20122 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, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20121 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, 20111 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, 20111 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, 20111 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, 20111 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, 20116 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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