I heard recently that your body completely renews itself every seven years. Cellular bit by cellular bit, all physical matter is rejected and then simultaneously replenished; the body shedding itself clean and then growing itself anew. And, through it all, we persist. Our identities, our memories, our essential selves continue.
I was thinking of this while [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Death by Photographs
Posted in Photography, tagged death, memory, Photography on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All Mouths Welcome…
Posted in South Korea, tagged Bibimbap, communal eating, eating, food, kimchi, soju, South Korea on September 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I absolutely love supping at Korea’s communal dinner table. Platters of deliciously inexpensive food attend every sit-down (a quite literal sit-down, I might add, since you rest on cushions and leave your shoes at the door). As sure as water is automatically set before you in North America, so are several staple dishes brought out, [...]
