On May 17, 2014, Jenny and myself were invited by Brown County Public Library to do a Chinese Calligraphy presentation (James) and Taichi Chuan presentation (Jenny). We had a very enthusiastic audience, ready to respond to questions and challenges. For some two hours or so we had lots of fun. Brown County Public Library is a beautifully located library, surrounded by woods and interesting terrain. We thoroughly enjoy our first visit, wishing to go there sometime in the future....

On May 20, 2014 I was invited again to write Chinese calligraphy for an IU summer Institute for Curriculum and Campus Internationalization. This is the fourth time I am doing it. Lots of fun though! One 70-year-old participant made an interesting short speech to the audience: "I could have chosen 'Longevity' for my present, but since I am already 70, so I thought I had longevity already. So, instead I chose 'Daring' for my life from now on, to challenge the world in a nice way...."

This is a wood cut artwork, done some time ago, now given to my granddaughter Rachel.

This is the calligraphy done by my teacher Professor Liang Shih-Chiu more than forty-five years ago as a wedding gift when Jenny and myself were getting married. It is a beautiful poem written by a famous poet Chang Ke-Jiou in Yuan Dynasty....

This is Ella, a Labrador Retriever daughter Clare has kept for the past 14 or 15 years. For Ella I wrote an essay "I Love Ella" recently (2014-March) and this sketch was done some ten years ago.

On May 21, 2013 I was invited for the third time annually to write calligraphy for each member of IU summer training program. I listed about 50 Chinese characters for each to choose from and wrote that particular Chinese character for him and her to take home. These are the ones I did lined up on the table awaiting to get dry.

On July 6th, 2013 four calligraphers are graduating with their mounting works in hand right in front of my house. We have had five weekly sessions before completion of the mounting procedures. We are very proud of their efforts!

Now their calligraphy works are ready for picture frames for a show. They look great, aren't they?

Starting from June 8, 2013 I am teaching another small class of Chinese Traditional Mounting Procedures. I have four students, all members of IU Calligraphy Club, who are eager to learn this ancient method of mounting to make their calligraphy works presentable. We are planning to meet every Saturday morning for 5 times to complete the course. There are two more sessions to go, hoping we will have a smooth going.

On June 22, 2013 my friends Linda and Andy are getting married. They both love dancing so much. So I made this "Double Happiness" as a token of our blessing and congratulation to them.

Our granddaughter Rachel who visited us in March 2013 with her Mom. She took time out to continue learning Chinese calligraphy, which, accordingly to her, is her favorite activity. Of course, I was happy to teach her this ancient Chinese art form, hoping eventually she would be able to write beautiful calligraphy. She is almost finishing one full page of calligraphy. She looks happy and contented.

This is another of my commissioned work--"Longevity" for a friend in Indianapolis who was celebrating his 80th birthday. It is written in extremely cursive style. The regular style looks like this: 壽. See how much they are different from each other.

{Fisherman's Song} 漁家樂 漁人一字一字 織成一張張電子網， 趁滿天繁星閃爍， 向汪洋大海撒去！ 等上弦月將天狼射落， 太陽神由海平線衝起， 忽然！知心語 一尾， 一尾， 乘著 電光 與風， 飛傳 游回。 頓時， 海上彩霞飛舞， 一片金輝燦爛！

Calligraphy versions of 21 "Dragons".

A landscape painting got by "happy accident", with calligraphy caption saying "When you look at it, it is mountain; when you look at it, it is water." And then, "When you look at it, it is not mountain; when you look at it, it is not water."

A Beijing dog drawn and given to my granddaughter.

Rachel, my granddaughter, drawn when she was ten.

Rachel, my granddaughter, drawn when she was five years old.

This is master Jing's painting of Mt. Lu. How magnificent it is!

This is my emulation of Mt. Lu done by Jing Hao of late Tang Dynasty, a great master of landscape. I finished only three-fourths of it, leaving some space for my calligraphy narrative about the painter and his time.... If you want to know how I did it, you can roll down a little bit in this blog and there I showed several stages of my painting process for your reference and comment.

This is my imaginary view of Mt Lu, also called Nan-Shan by the famous poet Tao Yuan-Min of Jing Dyansty....

kindness and love; sympathy.