春分 Chūn fēn, Spring Equinox (March 20th) 春分, the fourth solar terms of the year, is the day that position of Sun is exactly above Earth’s equator. To describe this phenomenon in Chinese, we would say that 太阳此刻刚好到达黄经零度 Tài yáng cǐ kè gang hǎo dào dá huáng jīng ling dù 太阳 Tài yáng means Sun 此刻 Cǐ kè means at Read more about 春分 Chūn fēn – Chinese spring divide[…]

Will you search through the lonely earth for me?Climb through the briar and brambleI’ll be your treasureI felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the windI knew the call of all the song birdsThey sang all the wrong wordsI’m waiting for youI’m waiting for youWill you swim through the briny sea for Read more about Keep looking[…]

The Essay, BBC Radio 4 Religions of the north https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06s9dh1

Borrow God’s eyes

In Something Understood Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand argues that the central teaching of this festival of light is about having enough and the feeling of not having enough in a culture of materialism and abundance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09jbrv6