Quick Last Look at Shanghai

Shanghai Marriott City Centre, looking south, 0500ish

Getting ready to head to the airport for the flight home, I sneak one last look at the view before I leave.

I regret not one whit our move back to the United States a few years ago. In some ways, doing so has given me permission to like China again.

I am starting to do so, and I find myself rather more enamored with Shanghai than before.

Funny that.

Long Night’s Journey Into Day

Dark night. Shanghai.

Writing about the end of the eighteen, fourteen,  and twelve hour workdays in 1897, Mark Twain noted that a job should be “a means of extending life instead of a means of committing salaried suicide.”