Around the World… With Me.

Beijing: My brush with life on the margins (2018).
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Beijing: My brush with life on the margins (2018).

Beijing slipped into Shanghai’s clothes, and they don’t fit. There’s no soul, just a lot of shine. There was something quite sad about this week. Maybe it was just that I was hungry, or because I felt so desperately dependent and marginalized.

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The View from Here: Two Weeks in China (2015).
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The View from Here: Two Weeks in China (2015).

I was in China for a bit over two weeks. The first working on a Quest for Leaders’ Quest and the second, a mix of personal travel and a visit to a remote village with our fellows—young people who are trained by Leaders’ Quest to bridge the rural/urban divide in China.

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