Tag / Taiwan
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Too much love for too few encounters of childhood
Taiwan has one of the lowest birth rates worldwide. It might thus either surprise you or not surprise you at all that both its infrastructure and society are enviable and adorable when it comes to children. Taiwan’s infrastructure proves that engineering in its rationality is anything but cold. We have yet to find a place…
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An offer you can refuse
A nice tradition in Taiwan and China is 坐月子 zuò yuè zǐ, postpartum confinement. It’s a one month period immediately after birth during which mother and child get time to rest, heal, and find strength again. Usually mothers spend that time in bed and have others like a granny take care of them. Nowadays, a…
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Giving birth to a dragon
The Taiwanese health care system is amazing and among the best in the world. We generally trust it. And yet cultures are different and there is always only so much you know you don’t know. Episiotomies are widely more common here than elsewhere, for example, and we wanted to go without them—unless necessary, of course.…
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Benerkenswert 2024 – The Year of the Dragon Daughter
2024 has been a year of the dragon. The biggest and most beautiful change for me was the birth of our baby daughter L. They say kids change you, and how can they not just considering what an all-consuming new hobby they become. I am deeply in love with this particular one! L should one…
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Burn the Boat
My first evening off since L’s birth was on the night of October 4th. A friend of mine was heading south for a 24 hours adventure and offered me to join for the Donggang Welcomes the Kings Peace Ceremony 東港迎王平安祭典, a triennial spiritual event I had filed in my head under The Big Boat Burning…
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![A curled young woman standing on a stone path on Maokong hill close to Taipei. The sun is shining through the leaves around her. She is smiling warmly.]()
Anna
Photo Journal | 2023-11-30
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![A portrait of a woman, wearing a white shirt and a grey jacket and smiling into the camera. The image is taken spontaneously in the streets of Jiufen. Some of the houses can be seen warm and blurred in the background.]()
A Different World
Photo Journal | 2023-11-29
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![Taipei 101, as seen from a street below it. The branch of a tree seem to stretch towards it. There are warm fairy lights on the branch. At its north side, Taipei 101 is dressed by a giant LED screen which points towards us. The LEDs are lightened in rainbow colors.]()
Proud & Open
Photo Journal | 2023-11-28
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Be Water My Friend
Photo Journal | 2023-11-27
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![A small young girl standing in front of a much much larger basketball basket, bending down to throw a ball towards it that is a fourth her size.]()
Determination
Photo Journal | 2023-11-26
