roland.
June 16, 2008
items founds in taiwan…and the friends they are given to…make my heart all giddy.
as i continue to clean my house i keep finding these little trinkets, cool little pieces of plastic or metal, or at times, something else, that i have either brought back with me from my journeys in taiwan or have somehow acquired here, lulled into being a consumer by that ubiquitous little white sticker affixed to it that reads: “made in taiwan”.
i wasn’t made in taiwan…yet so much of my life was…and yet, in taiwan, i find meaning, i found belonging…in truth, sitting on my grandparents leather couch that one afternoon with my agong, i found me.
so i hold onto trinkets, i buy them when they catch my eye…and i offer them up as gifts to friends as a piece of who i am. a gift of me.
