Wednesday, February 28, 2024

400 years of women's frustrations

In conversation today we wondered and meandered over human dynamics and how they have come to be. Especially within families - how we perceive and are in turn perceived, what bonds and binds us, what stories are told, embellished, and retold? 

some women diarists featured in the new anthology

Sarah Gristwood's Secret Voices: A Year of Women’s Diaries, is a captivating anthology of women's dominant emotion in the past 400 years - a recurring theme in their journals written between 1599 and 2015. 

This book is a collection of extracts from women’s diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women’s experience has changed over the years and how it hasn’t.

Organized around the calendar year with several selections for each day - this book is a fascinating record of how women were thinking, feeling and reacting to historical events.

Stauney, Sadie, and Sarah discuss the book

The variety of entries, the process of women writing in diaries and how they were preserved, the importance of daily records, how it's changing in the digital age, and what Sarah hopes people will take away from her latest release.

This book is an enthralling retrospective of well-known diarists and more obscure ones. The rich mix of incredibly voices often echoing down the centuries sound eerily familiar today. 

wonder | wander | world thoroughly recommend this fun and fabulous read. Read it! Read it! Read it! 

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Lunar New Year 2024

This year 2024, we celebrate the lunar new year on February 9 and 10. It is the year of the Green Wood Dragon

Quinglong, god of the East, Green Dragon

All over the world Asians and many others greet each other “Congratulations and may you be prosperous.”

Gong Xi Fa Cai in Mandarin. Kung Hei Fat Choi, also spelled as Gong Hei Fat Choy in Cantonese. Kiong Hee Huat Tsai in Hokkien, spoken by most Filipino Chinese, like our grandparentsKiong Hi Huat Cai in Indonesian. Chuc Mung Nam Moi or Cung Hỉ Phát Tài in Vietnamese.

May we all have a prosperous New Year!