Hold the Door!

What is labor but the agonized concentration of body and mind in squeezing out what has taken months (or years, depending on how you think about it) to develop, through the tiniest door of opportunity? A door that seems so poorly designed for the size of the job, the volume of the output, that it … More Hold the Door!

Spirit

Industry moves Wenzhou, to be sure, but ask me what higher form  of spirit moves the city, and I couldn’t tell you. I miss the sound of the muezzin that can be heard from our home, or anybody’s home no matter their location, in the city of Addis, in the early hours of the morning … More Spirit