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]