Why not take a moment to reflect on a walk through Taipei?
The News Lens
Date: 2018/02/16
By: Leora Joy
Describing a city is a slippery endeavor.
I have called Taipei home for five years. It wasn’t meant to be that way. I moved here in
Credit: Leora Joy
October, at the start of heartbreak, at the beginning of autumn. The rice paddies in Yilan – where I was staying on a stranger’s floor – had been harvested of their verdant green. What remained were irregular rectangles of gunmetal water reflecting a leaden sky, punctured by the occasional gray cement building. I found great comfort in those flat asymmetrical lines. The romantic in me found solace in the cold slabs of industry strewn around. [FULL STORY]