The spring sun seems warm and dry. So the fences, balcony railings, trees and clotheslines are draped with the bed quilts. As I walked down and back to the Amity Office in Nanjing yesterday, flowering fruit trees and the magnolias were really in competition with the bai zi and the laundry. I think spring is coming to Nanjing. I am safely back from a holiday that took me to South China and then Thailand.
Classes are now back in session and the second term is off and running.
I feel there is more I could do for the Institute. They have a great fear of taking up my time or not allowing me enough time to rest. While in Yunnan province in January, I attended Amity's Annual Winter Conference. Water, both for drinking and irrigation, was the focus this year as well as terracing for crops, a medical clinic and a bio-gas village. In all cases, Amity supplies some of the money needed to get these projects started.