Leafing through and reflecting upon pitiful but poignant images in family photographs and our comforting times together and now apart after 2010, write about challenges day after day. Years back after relocating and meeting new friends and neighbours learn one neighbour is writing serial romance novels in her home office. At one of our neighbourhood parties to share in celebrations writer mentions her choice to start each day is reading self-affirmation, writing in her journal and is loving watching each week television’s new Seinfield show.
Yet journaling is as keeping childhood five-year diaries. Standing outside grandma’s long-term care home in summer 2013, ponder how to describe to her writing our free-verse poetry journal. Experiences to share are from inspirations with mother, who believes in her daughter’s skills in arts like watercolour painting and writing a book. Attending piano recitals, watching figure skating solo performances or level tests and writing our letters are common pleasures.
In 2009, soon at in-service training as volunteer tutor at a local college, learn English as a second language is like adjusting to acquiring physical or mental disability, speak below student abilities with one-two-syllables in words and meet with student for forty-five minutes twice each week. In Essences of Tongcheng, readers meet characters and visit places as if to learn when English is a second or foreign language
