Background

Our elder son Jason got married to Miss Florence Lau on July 26^th 2014 in Vancouver.
In the afternoon there was a Catholic marriage in the Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver.
In the evening during the wedding dinner, the parents of the groom and bride were asked to make a short speech, about 5-6 minutes. Below is the draft of the speech I made.

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                               繡球耽享晚秋色      半殘拼取未凋時

“My dear son,
It is six o’clock in the morning on the island of Hong Kong. You are asleep, cradled in my left arm, and I am learning the art of one-handed typing. … When you are older, we will tell you that you were born in Britain’s last Asian colony in the Lunar Year of the Pig, and that when we brought you home the staff of our apartment block gathered to wish you well.
‘It’s a boy, so lucky, so lucky. We Chinese love boys,’ they told us.
One man said you were the first baby to be born in the block in the Year of the Pig. This, he told us, was Feng Shui, in other words a positive sign for the building and everyone who lived there….”
Read the letter here,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/41784.stm

A Zen poem that is a koan (a riddle) – (Author unknown)

來從萬水千山外, 又向千山萬水歸, 這回自有真消息, 風攬溪林落葉飛。

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Chinese and Foreign Sages and Poets Look at Stages of Life

Please click here to read the selection.

What’s in a name?

This essay is part about English names and naming and part about Pope Francis’ choice of name.

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