Back on the Blog

My blogging hiatus has come to an end. For all you fans of my blog out there (hi, Mom and Dad), sorry it lasted so long. I took almost half a year of Chinese lessons, which were quite intense: lots of memorization and also, because the teaching was one-on-one, lots of talking, sheer blabbing in Chinese, about traffic conditions in Beijing, and other such topics, for an average of 12 hours of study per day.

Since finishing that program, I began work on a project called the Green Long March. With obvious echoes of the historical Red Long March—a long and arduous journey for Mao’s communist troops, a retreat really, that allowed them eventually to claim victory—the Green Long March, similarly, is a call for another long journey to rise above the ecological challenges of our time. Beyond the somewhat grandiose name, there are some pretty interesting individual projects that occur. More on this later…