by Lydia Hsu | Feb 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Lydia Hsu | Aug 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I was a child, I played with dust. The unwiped surfaces of our family furniture provided powder canvases for sketches and secret messages, and when I was finished drawing, poof! – with a single breath, I sent the symbols into the air, watched as they...
by Lydia Hsu | Aug 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
“Can you play it for me?” I look up from the book. It is 2:00 AM and the rest of the entourage is busy eating wings and samosas and talking about going out to a club. But his pasta carbonara is untouched and he points to the worn copy of Liszt’s “Un Sospiro”...
by Lydia Hsu | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
For me it is all symphonic, and I am so aroused by living – In you alone I have found the same swelling enthusiasm, the same quick rising of the blood, the fullness. Before, I almost used to think there was something wrong. Everybody else seemed to have the brakes on....
by Lydia Hsu | Mar 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”...
