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60 days in China. Since Mondays are my day off, if I have some ideas to share with you, I’ll do that on Mondays. I am running and staying active regularly, however, and writing has not been on my mind lately. Too busy trying to get acquainted with my environment I suppose, or maybe just writer’s block. Yes, more like writer’s block.
I have made special progress in my Chinese studies and I’m happy about that. I have learned the 40 radicals (the building blocks of the Chinese characters) and their stroke names. If I can keep up that pace, I may take the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi–the Chinese TOEFL) earlier than May. I have learned the test is available in December.
So the weather is hot and running in this weather is even hotter, but it’s only sweat that pours from my body. The fluid stream of ideas necessary for writing does not pour from my mind. My thoughts mind their own business. In their many splintered fragments they ricochet from here to there to nowhere, then back; ideas, observations, comments and reflections all trying to dance together but the music keeps changing. 60 hot days. Many more silent breakthroughs.
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