Being American Chinese

I don't look Chinese so why am I American Chinese? A banana is yellow outside and white inside but I don't think there's a fruit that is white outside and yellow within.
    The main thing is my sensibilities are becoming more Chinese each day. I speak Mandarin Chinese and English so that makes me listen in a Chinese culture and in an American one. Plus I've been married to a Taiwanese for nearly 25 years. It helps to understand both cultures which I will talk about in the future. God bless you, Matt McCabe

"The Red Wheelbarrow " by William Carlos Williams

He was not afraid of using Carlos, he could have been W.C. Williams or William Karl Williams, etc but instead he was himself in all his Latinoness. He was a Latino poet, after all.
    Let's look at this poem. Why pick a red wheelbarrow? It represents farming and farmers when he lived, in the 20th century. It carried a lot and helped farmers with their tough work. I can understand. Why was it next to white chickens and glazed with rain? I dunno. If the poet was here, he could tell you. I'll try. Always out in the elements, like rain or cold snow, glazed
with rain represents this. The red wheelbarrow and white chickens is a relief to a red wheelbarrow so you see
the color red and the color white. So much depends on it. We depend on things  like that. We put our hope in red wheelbarrows in all kinds of hot or cold weather to feed us. God bless you,  Matt McCabe mccabematthewr@gmail.com

A sensitive soul in this world of Rock 'n' Roll

My life is divided into pre-accident and post-accident. Pre-accident, I listened to all kinds of music, with words (inspired by the classical work "Songs without words"). They were mostly on the radio and even online. I listened to them mostly on the radio and even online. I memorized them. I went to used CD stores and new stores like Barnes & Noble to seek and buy all I could. But, like food,  I was becoming more picky in what I bought.So I didn't buy much. I kept seeking free online videos and radio stations in the US and world.  Post-accident, I listen mostly to classical music.  On the weekend,  I do hear 80s pop music. If you teach ESL,  then song clozes are wonderful. You can't do that with classical music,  even though I can't tell Mozart from a neighbor. But why do you play classical music? To grow my brain and body. I also remember as a child hearing some of the classical tunes. Like "Pier Gynt" and so forth. There might be more. God bless you,  Matt McCabe mccabematthewr@gmail.com
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