爸爸妈妈的照片

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当飓风得以冠名的时候，所能做的，就是闲闲地宅在家里，看外面风起云涌。宅到午后，人开始蠢蠢欲动。妈妈在午睡前警告：风越来越大，不要出门。

此时世界只有两个声音：屋外的风雨声，和屋里的打字声。听仔细了听得到风声远近的层次。

整理了给爸爸妈妈带回去的照片，用500G的移动硬盘，照片多得我担心爸爸失去线索。分门别类，手写目录一页，全是将来会重温的记忆。

也整理一组留给我自己的照片，是和爸爸妈妈一起的时光，是阿歪宁宁在这里的夏天。全是我不想忘却的纪念。

爸爸妈妈的美国生活图片主题：
•家，夏和秋，里和外
•饭后散步记：是玉米地的成长，是鹿的奔跑，是大雁的起飞降落，是飞机滑过天空的痕迹，是落日时候的晚霞。
•与动物们的邂逅：成全爸爸心目中人与大自然的和谐
•周末的游玩野餐：华盛顿过河公园和泰乐公园
•大西洋海岸：长海滩，快乐海滩，海洋城
•费城壁画
•布鲁克林的长周末
•特旺达的世界尽头
•纽约雕塑艺术园：雕塑秋色

2012年的秋天

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一场名字叫做桑迪的飓风正在终结2012年的秋天。关于这个秋天，我已了无遗憾，等着风雨停歇以后的冬天。唯一还需要努力准备的是告别。这是一个告别的季节。小子昨天在飓风来临前飞回了中国，爸爸妈妈即将在两天后离开，假如航班顺利，李铮一家人下星期离开东岸，从此两地。每天都和自己有点小对话，总觉得已经远远成熟于5年前的自己了，不会大哭，会伤感，而伤感是挺好的情绪。

秋天。十月初，去了宾州北部的ENDLESS MOUNTAINS，山城的名字叫特旺达，公园的名字叫世界尽头。两天里各种天气，阴雨绵绵，云雾缭绕，阳光灿烂。我教会爸爸妈妈说beautiful. 在每个天气里，那些颜色，那些树，那些路，那些石头，那些远眺，都很美。

爸爸说：你的快乐情绪很感染人，你让我体会到雨中行也很美。妈妈说：和你们两人玩，鞋子湿透了也很开心。可是，我想，假如不是爸爸妈妈的配合和童心未泯，我如何能够感染他们呢。

星期六，十月末了。和小子一拍即合，在秋天结束前再带爸爸妈妈看叶子去。STORM KING ART CENTER。秋游的名字我都想好了：雕塑秋色。又是美好的一天。当天晚上，果然梦见被各种亮色包绕，人越发渺小。

小子和我每年都秋游，今年因为爸爸妈妈的同行，而别具意义。对我们来说，是如愿以偿吧。

平常心

新工作，人还没认识全，就要着手两个大项目。有点摸不着头脑的紧张，但小子说：怀一颗平常心工作。对，平常心。真管用。小子英明。

 

外面阳光真好啊，院子里的蓝色绿色椅子列成一排，上面坐着躺着爸爸的手洗衣裤。如此秋日明媚，在等烟囱清洗工来工作。

Danchen Haiku

这个星期开始换了个岗位搬到公司另外一个分部。本来的同事们就变成了以前的同事。以前的同事聚一起给了我一个告别午餐。聚会很开心，是两年以来最好的一次，本来一个小时的午餐聊了将近两个小时。席间有人念了一首关于我的诗：

Danchen Haiku


Drinking coffee sweet

And full of milk and sugar

Is something she loves

You X-ray our docs

Trained as radiologist

Get the best insight

Always with cool scarf

Trendier than all else

Can you dress us too?

Exercise very hard

Shan cannot keep up

Sweating behind you

A list of Important Verbs

A random question just occurred to me a few days ago. What are the most important verbs in our life? Here is the list that xiaozi and I came up with:


We experience.

We love.

We travel.

We enjoy and appreciate.

We try and learn.

We feel.

We laugh.

We grow and mature.

We age.

And then,

We die.

The words, Travel, Laugh, Try and Age, came from Xiaozi. I like all of them and Try, in particular.

Steve Jobs

I haven’t finished the book Steve Jobs. Reading it a few minutes over the breakfast in the morning and flipping a few pages before the bedtime, I found myself constantly having Steve Jobs in the mind during the day. In one meeting yesterday, one person with high title made a comment about the works my vendor delivered, “a piece of crap”. Trying not to be defensive, I declared that I agreed with her evidence which was brought up by me and remained mystery, but disagreed with her conclusion given that the “evidence” hasn’t been proved.


I couldn’t help imagining one scenario: what would Steve Jobs respond to this kind of comments? He was the one who liked to trash other ones’ work, but how he would react if another Steve Jobs was criticizing his stuff. It could be: then tell me how to make it less crappy? Or: Don’t forget that the core input to the fantastic forecast was from this crap. Well, it has to be more brutal than this, if it were Steve Jobs.

What was Steve Jobs made of? I have some equations to describe him, an extremely complex human being, just based on the book. Xiaozi asked me if the book was inspiring. No, not to me. It will be probably only inspiring to someone alike. But what have I learned? Seriously, what? Maybe I should give it some thoughts after I finish the entire book.

Happy & Ordinary

阴雨绵绵的天气很适合写篇日记。工作变动正式成立，正在移交阶段，时间忽然就富裕了，脑子得闲想乱七八糟的。

最近仿佛＂豁然开窍＂,脑子里老闪过两个单词：HAPPY AND ORDINARY。整句话是：MY LIFE HAS BEEN HAPPY AND ORDINARY AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE。小子充分肯定HAPPY的同时，问我：在ORDINARY和EXTRADINARY之间有什么，会怎么样。又建议：在ORDINARY LIFE的过程中，做一两件EXTRADINARY的事，会不会增加点色彩？我真心喜欢这个建议，好象又给庸常生活制造了一个小课题。

和爸爸妈妈的一起生活让我他们有前所未有的了解，也因此明白了自己的一些特质＂出有因＂。基因的力量很强大。

正在看STEVE JOBS的传记，很吸引我。只有天才能在＂宇宙上砸个坑＂MAKE A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE。但天才不需要是伟大的人性完美者.

当小子说：他很期待这个即将到来的秋游，我发现自己竟然落后在他后面，怎么可以。我们应该竞相期待。期待本身多么让人愉快啊。不要忘记期待，平常的日子里还是有好多事可以期待的。

此刻，我期待小子的到来，期待汽车旅行，期待小木屋和篝火，期待灿烂秋色。(10/01/2012)

当期待开始以后，就意味着两种可能性：如愿，或者失望。昨天建立起了秋游的期待，今天查天气，期待落空。失望吗？有点。那就把转个弯，期待别的东西。

今天的期待。带爸爸妈妈去吃附近刚开张每天都客满的BURGER PALACE。