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Today, Bei Bei and I went for a short hike up Phoenix Mountain in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province and found a patch of low-growing berries, Melastoma dodecandrum (地棯). It's edible, sweet with an astringent and slightly bitter aftertaste. The whole plant is used in traditional Chinese medicine . According to a 2003 article published in China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica , Five compounds were isolated…
卦辞 The Judgment 小過。亨，利貞。可小事，不可大事。飛鳥遺之音。不宜上，宜下，大吉。 Preponderance of the Small. Success. Perseverance furthers. Small things may be done; great things should not be done. The flying bird brings the message: It is not well to strive upward, It is well to remain below. Great good fortune. 歌词 Lyrics: 小小飞鸟飞得低 Little bird, flying low 你家很远不用急 Your home is far away, no need to hurry 晒晒太阳太阳光 The sunlight is…
Joseph and Bei Bei, Your union is true. Your union is written. Your union is in faith and true love. You guys are meant to be! Joseph, if there’s anything that I trust about you in the few years I’ve known you, it’s that your path and your ways are guided by a wisdom and intuition further reaching than yourself, and this guidance shines clear and bright to me in every interaction I’ve had with you…
恭喜外孙女贝贝和小九新婚之喜！远在亚利桑那州缔结良缘，新春佳节双喜临门。外公特意填词两阕，既合中式雅韵，又寄万里祝福。两阕词皆紧扣新春、新婚、远地良缘之意，平仄韵脚依词牌正体格律，既合迎宾贺婚之礼，又藏阖家祝福之情。贝贝，如你们那里有“中国红的”大红纸买的话，你去买张红纸抄写一份贴在你们的新婚房间里，作个纪念。《迎宾词》用红纸抄写一份贴在你们办喜酒的大门。（外公外婆衷心祝福，2026年2月19日于中国） Congratulations to our granddaughter Bei Bei and Joseph on your marriage! You have joined your lives together far away in Arizona, and your wedding has brought us double happiness during the…
2025年年初，我受航长的邀请参加每周一次的启发聚会（一系列帮助人了解基督教信仰的课程）。我那时住在下关，每次路上要花一个半小时，但我无比庆幸自己参与其中，因为在那里我认识了对我非常重要的一群好朋友。3月时我还信誓旦旦地告诉他们我懒得搬家，每周这么赶路也无所谓，转头4月1号我就已经住进了三文笔村的新家。我有了自己的沙盘工作室，也有了与朋友们更频繁的相聚。我们在聿敏家打鼓、跳舞，在航长家聚餐、欢唱，在Raymond家喝酒、畅聊……我的“闭关”状态渐渐褪去，被友情的连接所填充。6月的一天，我和姚瑶约好了吃午餐，她早上临时问我能不能再带一位刚认识的外国朋友一起，我随即就答应了，并不知道自己命运会因此发生翻天覆地的变化。在这个愉快的下午之后，我和小九每天都会见面，每次见面聊天聊到不想告别。两周以后在一个聚会上我邀请小九和我一起跳舞，我们两个十分笨拙地相拥跳舞，一不小心就踩到对方的脚。那天告别时我意…
After we got married in February , Bei Bei and I honeymooned at the Cascabel Conservation Association 's Cottage Hermitage, a sublime solitary retreat nestled in Hot Springs Canyon east of Tucson, AZ. We actually made plans before we got married to do the week-long retreat together in Cascabel! Only after getting engaged three weeks before our wedding did we realize that the retreat would be the…
When I send an email, I often want my agenda to remind me to follow up a few days later. Thanks to Dirk-Jan C. Binnema 's help, I was able to set this up with mu4e and org-capture . mu4e + org-capture Here's the code: (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates ("efu" "Follow Up" entry (file+olp "todo/todo.org" "Email" "Follow Up") "* TODO Follow up with %(eval sent-message-to) on [[mu4e:msgid:%(eval…
I rarely use query-replace-regexp 's lisp expression replacement feature, but I came upon a good use for it today! Recently, I've been testing out org-srs for practicing Mandarin vocab. So far, it works very well! When I asked to truncate the serialized data which gets written to the Org files to reduce diff noise and to make the state column fit on my small laptop screen, the package author…
During the Q&A session of the EmacsConf 2024 hyperdrive.el talk , Ihor Radchenko suggested using hyperdrive to distribute worg , the community-driven Org documentation written in Org format. Thanks, Ihor! Mirror worg to a hyperdrive You can run these commands on a local or remote machine. I chose to mirror worg to a hyperdrive on a remote Debian 12 VPS so that the content stays available when I…
Out of the box, Sourcehut only renders README , README.md , and README.markdown .1 Workarounds to render README.org One proposed workaround is to export README.org to README.md (in a git hook), and then commit README.md , which will be rendered as HTML on git.sr.ht . Another option is to set a custom README . Here's how we render the README for hyperdrive.el on git.sr.ht by setting a custom…