Rebecca Grace Kehl – revised copy for December 24, 2016 Mistletoe/Holly: “Ancient druids believed mistletoe had magical properties because of the way it grows, never touching the ground… The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas comes from the belief that mistletoe has fertility magic.” Photo by Christopher Furlong More people are learning about…
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It was a scalding and busy Saturday for me, full of sleep-deficient-related headaches while nailing the major portion of the errands I set out to do for the day. After, I went out for a cooling walk to get a lemon-passionfruit drink with my reusable mug at the Coco Tea street shop. I took a stroll in the Jingmei…
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When summer vacation comes around this year, untold numbers of kids will celebrate the last day of school by grabbing a smart-phone, turning on a game console, or logging into a computer to play video games. Like a scene from a science-fiction movie, the world’s children will sit in front of screens in air-conditioned rooms,…
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(translated by 吳耀翰) Because Taipei city is such that the residential always mixes with the commercial, and since commercial buildings here often leave their lights on after closing, we have a really bad case of nightly light pollution. If you don’t have proper blinds and an eye mask, light sleepers and insomniacs may have a…
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– A Young Canadian’s View on Why Taiwan is So Safe – By Rebecca G. Kehl When I was 17 and a 1/2, my good-humored, maverick father came over to Taiwan and lived here for a year. Then he came back and taught me his limited Mandarin, haha!: 我要, 好吃, and 你好嗎, and brought me back…
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Power, power, power… 🙂 What is it, where does it come from, and what do we do with it? 力量、力量、力量…它究竟是甚麼，它從哪裡來，我們可以用力量做甚麼？ When you think of power, what immediately comes to mind? Make a list of people who you think are powerful: 當你想到力量，你立刻浮現腦海的是什麼？ 列出一份你認為有力量之人的名單: – – – Next, take a minute to list some powerful characteristics: / 然後，花幾分鐘列出一些有力量的特質: –…
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Rebecca Kehl – December 31, 2015 Mistletoe/Holly: “Ancient druids believed mistletoe had magical properties because of the way it grows, never touching the ground… The tradition of kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas comes from the belief that mistletoe has fertility magic.” Photo by Christopher Furlong I lived in Taiwan about ten years ago for 2…
Read moreThe Wild East / Comedy I’ve always enjoyed being in Asia for Christmas because they really don’t give a rat’s ass about it. For this very reason, we are able to have such niceties as Chinese restaurants to eat Christmas dinner in the West, for those who are too lazy to cook, and the hordes…
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By Rebecca Kehl – Dec 2015 In this article, a mystery will be revealed before your very eyes… It is the 2-fold challenge of curing modern man’s addiction to plastic. I shall reveal the mystery now, at the beginning, to save you all the suspense. The answer is: Completely adapting to a life of reuseables (the way it was before the…
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By Rebecca Kehl You know those days when the power goes out and your fridge stops working and waters dripping from the freezer and there’s no air-con and it’s like 35°C? And you try to plug in your computer cuz it’s low on battery. You need to send that paper in and get back to your…
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