This is a coronavirus Valentine’s Day story. Jenny had put yellow curtains up and some colorful pillows on her bed to make her cheap and slightly run-down room feel more like home. In September 2019, a new job in New York City required her to move. Having rented a room in a shared house, she ...
A honey bee on a radicchio flower collecting pollen. Image by Trisha Haddock.
Lyrics of the Christmas carol O Christmas Tree describe the joy people have experienced for decades from decorating a tree and placing it in a significant position in the house at Christmastime. The fir tree has been the most popular type of tree used for Christmas celebrations. Also, artificial fir trees and homemade trees have become popular ...
Our home is situated among the trees in Warrandyte, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. My husband Steve and I enjoy sitting outside watching the birds. We often are visited by magpies and other birds. In January 2020, a female magpie visited while my husband was eating his lunch in the garden. The magpie looked at ...
The lotus flower has a significant meaning of purity in traditional Chinese culture. Here, the lotus flower is shown to represent peace Experiencing the making of a paper lotus flower can enhance and deepen your understanding of purity and peacefulness within your heart. The Petals of Peace project was inspired by Jane Dai and her daughter ...
Living on the east side of an outer Melbourne suburb, in the first week of January 2020 clouds of smoky haze drifted past my nose many times. The smoke came from the massive Australian bushfires burning in the country areas of both New South Wales and Victoria. To date, the haze is still visible over ...
Brushstrokes in black ink sweep across a sheet of white paper. This is the introduction to a compelling story about Sun Yi, a Chinese dissident who was in the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp. On the big screen at the Cinema Nova in Carlton, Victoria, Australia, it’s a full house and we are all in anticipation ...
The feature exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne is the Terracotta Warriors and Cai Guo-Qiang, combining ancient Chinese artifacts with brilliant artwork by Cai Guo-Qiang. All the tomb warriors are individually made and when you take a closer look at each one, you can see each one displays its own personality. ...
Chinese New Year celebrations have started in Melbourne, Australia, and 2019 is the Year of the Pig! A 15-day festival with performances will be held in the Melbourne business center. The Chinese New Year falls on February 5 this year, but the festivities start on the 2nd and continue to the 15th. For a list ...
Expeience the heart-warming story about the friendship between a young boy and a pelican in Australia’s Coorong, which is retold and based on Colin Thiele’s book, Storm Boy. Mike Kindley is Storm Boy grown up, and now he’s a successful retired businessman. He sees visions of his Indigenous friend he knew from childhood and pelicans. ...
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