Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.
My friend watched me pour tea and dump the first steep. He looked horrified. Then an old man in a signless tea house in Chaozhou said one sentence that changed everything.
Thirty-seven degrees. I grabbed an iced cola. My mom called and said don't. I didn't believe her until a Chinese medicine doctor said two words: "stomach cold." After 30 days of warm water, I found out my mom was right all along.
A foreign vlogger held up a Chinese dragon lantern and said it breathes fire. I paused the video. That golden dragon with deer antlers and fish scales didn't look like anything that would breathe fire. It looked more like a cloud.
A friend gave me agarwood incense. The night I couldnt sleep, I lit one, and everything stopped. Agarwood is the scent of a tree slowly healing its wounds—and that thought stayed with me.
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