Saturday, February 10, 2024

Happy Chinese New Year...

 Today is Chinese New Year, a day that typically stretches into two weeks in China, or so I'm told.  When a friend and I travelled to Australia in 2017 it was during the Chinese New Year celebration time and I was amazed at the Chinese decorations abundantly displayed in all of the malls and stores.  It shows what a narrow minded 'westerner' I was.  I had never thought of how close, geographically, China and Australia are, and didn't realize that Australia was a favorite tourist destination for Chinese travelers.  One of my favorite visual memories from that trip was a balloon dachshund (it was the year of the dog) suspended near the ceiling of a large open store by multiple colorful balloons. What made it memorable to me was, that hanging on my wall at home, is a pen and ink drawing, created by my son, of a very happy looking dachshund suspended in the air by multiple balloons, titled "Freedom."  My son said this is how I felt when I sold my house and down sized and he was so right.  Like a huge load had been lifted. When he was a child we had a pair of miniature dachshunds, so that was the perfect dog for the picture.  

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