Jinghua gao dalia biography

Note to Educators

 

These projects are being shared in the hope that they might provide some practical support and ideas for those of you trying to acquaint young people with this amazing world in which we live.

The activity sheets can be used in either formal settings such as classrooms or in informal settings, such as nature centers or homeschooling contexts.  Some could serve as ‘take-home’ materials at Farmers Markets or as pages available for coloring (or as prompts) on children’s art tables at Environmental Awareness festivals or fairs.

These activities are designed to help in people’s efforts to transmit to new generations a love and understanding of this sacred and complex planet.  If you’re reading these words now, perhaps you already share my belief that one of our tasks as adults is to ensure that young people continue to be animated by a true awareness and knowledge of the wondrous natural world – and by a sturdy emotional sense of connectedness to it all.  The goal, from my perspective, is to equip young people with i

Cold Spring
6" x 6" watercolor
© Jinghua Gao Dalia
I think this is the first time "who's made a mark this week" has happened on 1st April. I guess I should have planned and had a nice elaborate joke at the ready. However I'm not very good at pranks and jokes so you needn't bother looking for one because there isn't one!

I was also out for the day in the sunshine virtually every day last week (we've just had the third hottest March since records began!)so not a lot of time for reading - but I caught a few items of note.

Art Blogs and Artists

We know that some artists need a little help in creating their artwork . I found this article in the Guardian 'I'd like 11 and a half tons of resin, please': the artisans behind the artists to be absolutely fascinating

The moral outrage – the idea that we're all being duped because we're paying all this money and the work's not being made by the artists themselves – is ridiculous. What's more interesting is whether a piece is good or bad.

Drawing and Sketching


Coloured Pencils and Pastel

Welcome

Welcome to my new (2013) site, Wandering Blade, which is a resetting of my original site: The Dragon Gate Inn. This site, as the former one, is devoted to my fiction writing, my thoughts about the genre I write in: wuxia (武俠) or Chinese style heroic fiction, and the art of storytelling in all its various forms.

The wuxia genre can be considered a sub-genre of historical fantasy. As all heroic style fiction it is a genre full of action and ideals, much as implied by the Chinese terms wu (martial) and xia (usually incorrectly translated as "chivalry", it is closer to "moral integrity"). As I continue to build this new website, I will add more information on the genre, its history, its modern globalized form, and the art of storytelling.

Briefly, I am a scholar of medieval Chinese history, longtime resident of East Asia, and practitioner of various Chinese arts who has turned my decades of life experience into fiction writing. I have produced a series of short stories written in the style of tradition

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