What Ru Shi Writes

Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.

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My Coworker Asked Why Li Has Been Wearing Red from Head to Toe

Mark quietly asked me: has Li joined some kind of group? No, I said. She's just in her Ben Ming Nian — her zodiac year. What is Tai Sui? Why is every twelve years a threshold? Does red really protect you from anything? I tried to explain this two-thousand-year-old system — and realized red socks are a talisman from your mother.

9/13/20268 min

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Bazi and MBTI: The Night I Laid Two Maps Side by Side

At a team icebreaker, everyone announced their MBTI — and I couldn't remember mine. That night I dug out the bazi chart my mother had made the year I was born, laid the two maps side by side, and noticed three things.

9/3/20267 min