Notes: An ordinary man’s confession by Lin Yi-Hsuan I volunteered to be here in order to experience something new and different, I once felt proud with esteem as a volunteer, all the other foreign friends that I met and became acquainted in Honduras also came here to volunteer for various reasons through different routes, I was happy to be part of the voluntary team, to say that I am a volunteer and I am from Taiwan.
Notes: Miami by Lin Yi-Hsuan I’ve been in Miami for almost a week now without any contact address and telephone number, this is the best moment to read the Collected Letters by Rainer Maria Rilke, even though what he is preaching is words and vocabularies, I’d rather think of it as being in Sophie’s World. As if he is giving me lessons across time and space, as if every letter he wrote tells me something about the situations I’m about to encounter.
Xue Picks: Ryan Stewart Nault 昨晚做了一個夢，是彩色的。為什麼會知道是彩色的，夢的內容是和新的約會對象去了一家餐廳吃飯，餐廳裡面沒有清楚的出口和動向，室內由很多種顏色的木質方框和門構成，區隔成一塊一塊的空間。那些材料的顏色一律都像映照在夕暮下。我們在裡面待了一會，彼此羞澀，卻是自在的氣氛。夢的開始在餐廳裡面，結束依然停在裡面。我們走不出去餐廳，沒因此感到困擾。像是一個預言。
London Diary 昨晚回家的時候突然下了一場大雪，雪花片片堆積在公車的擋風玻璃上，車裡的熱氣讓窗戶結成一片霧，只能隱約瞧見窗外的景物都覆了層粉白。如果你把傘打開，可以從打落在傘翼上的聲音分辨究竟是雨滴抑或細雪。雪的聲音很輕，只是稍微擦過表面，以溫柔沙沙作響。
Once Again, When We Are Alive Our peace was in the cemetery, we walked through all the stones with their real and fake flowers; we fixed the fallen vases, and sat under the tree in the middle of the graveyard. Reading short stories, in your book half chewed by a mice.
