I'm new to your essays, Jeff, and I can't wait to read more! As someone who used to raise a few chickens in my backyard, I totally understand talking to them. Thank you for this beautiful essay.
Great essay! On the specific tangent of chickens, you might enjoy the new novel Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth. It’s funny, but also quite poignant in a lot of places....
Wow, I love this essay and the way you styled it! That’s my favorite way to write. The dancing back and forth between stories was very compelling.
I feel like the Chinese way of exploring one’s land is fantastic and something I can really relate to. My parents were from New England and though I was born in Texas, I still feel like a New Englander because of their influence.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your family’s story and your honest yet compassionate reflections on raising chickens here with us. I have mixed feelings about eating meat and would sort of like to raise chickens. But maybe only for eggs!
I'm writing a long paragraph for my church's bulletin in celebration to Asian Pacific month. I chose Dr Mabel Ping Hua Lee, also born in Guangzhou, China in 1896. Within 24 hours, you wrote about your family from that same city. I love our amazingly small world. Thank you Jeff for bringing your life into mine.
"We don’t like to be reminded how other bodies give theirs up for ours." Another whole thread to follow with this idea. So enjoyed reading this. Thank you for writing it.
Thanks Jeff for your always delicious writing. Glad to have found your blog. Praying you and Tristan are well.
I love the way you weave stories together, Jeff. Thank you for this.
I'm new to your essays, Jeff, and I can't wait to read more! As someone who used to raise a few chickens in my backyard, I totally understand talking to them. Thank you for this beautiful essay.
Great essay! On the specific tangent of chickens, you might enjoy the new novel Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth. It’s funny, but also quite poignant in a lot of places....
Wow, I love this essay and the way you styled it! That’s my favorite way to write. The dancing back and forth between stories was very compelling.
I feel like the Chinese way of exploring one’s land is fantastic and something I can really relate to. My parents were from New England and though I was born in Texas, I still feel like a New Englander because of their influence.
Thanks for sharing a bit of your family’s story and your honest yet compassionate reflections on raising chickens here with us. I have mixed feelings about eating meat and would sort of like to raise chickens. But maybe only for eggs!
Beautiful essay on humanity and our pasts!
I'm writing a long paragraph for my church's bulletin in celebration to Asian Pacific month. I chose Dr Mabel Ping Hua Lee, also born in Guangzhou, China in 1896. Within 24 hours, you wrote about your family from that same city. I love our amazingly small world. Thank you Jeff for bringing your life into mine.
"We don’t like to be reminded how other bodies give theirs up for ours." Another whole thread to follow with this idea. So enjoyed reading this. Thank you for writing it.
i am so in love with this.