Unhealed Wound – Page 92 – Passion for Art, Movies, and Culture

Dunhuang–The Caves of A Thousand Buddhas

Written by diana on November 4, 2012. Posted in Art, Buddhism, International Travel, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on Dunhuang–The Caves of A Thousand Buddhas

Two weeks ago I visited the incomparable Mogao Caves at Dunhuang, a UNESCO World Heritage site, located in Gansu province, northwestern China, at the edge of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts, directly north of Tibet. These caves remain one of the most well-preserved, splendid sanctuaries of sacred art in the world. Mogao Caves From the 3rd century BCE through the 12th century AD, Dunhuang was a prosperous oasis situated at the entrance to the Silk Road, where ancient caravans of Bactrian camels, donkeys, and horses carried cargo for more than 7,000 kilometers from China and Tibet through the...

A Shanghai High

Written by diana on October 28, 2012. Posted in Art, International Travel, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments on A Shanghai High

Shanghai skyline I want to thank Susie Berteaux for being the guest blogger for the last two excellent posts, “Fairy Tale Updated” and ” Go for Broke”, while I was having a wonderful two-week adventure in China. Shanghai, our first gateway city to China — aka “the Paris of Asia”– is renowned for its historical landmarks: the Bund, the Yuyuan classical Ming gardens, the French and British Concessions, as well as the extensive and growing skyline, the “showpiece” of the booming economy of mainland China. Shanghai is bisected...

Fairy Tale Updated

Written by diana on October 22, 2012. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Fairy Tale Updated

The retelling of Fairy Tales of my childhood has been an interesting journey for me. If you know the children’s books by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith (The Stinky Cheeseman and other Fairly Stupid Tales, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and others) you might know where I’m coming from. The real trick in really appreciating the “new” look at fairly tales is that you have to know the original stories. My parents provided me with a large sized Golden Book of Fairy Tales and read these tales to me before I could read and then encouraged me to read them myself when I started to learn to read...

“Go for Broke”

Written by diana on October 18, 2012. Posted in Literary and Art Journals, Unhealed Wound. No Comments on “Go for Broke”

Hi, Let me introduce myself to the followers of “Unhealed Wound.” I am Susie Berteaux, friend of Diana and Doug, who has a blog of my own – “S&J’s Big Adventure(s).” I guess, since I have my own blog, Diana thought that qualified me to be the substitute blogger while she and Doug are traveling the vast, beautiful and fascinating country of China. When she gets back, we will all be waiting for her discoveries of art, culture and …food. I hope you all will find my postings as interesting and educational as Diana’s. For this posting, I will “GO FOR BROKE!” as I attended the 11th Annual...

Azuki–The Sushi, Not the Bean

Written by diana on October 6, 2012. Posted in Local travel, Restaurants. 1 Comment on Azuki–The Sushi, Not the Bean

We’ve eaten at just about every high-end sushi restaurant that exists in any town we are in, looking for the Holy Grail of sushi, and some standouts have really been memorable. In San Diego, I believe that Azuki belongs in the same category as the best we’ve been to: for its freshness, creative presentation, and quality of preparation. Located in Banker’s Hill near Balboa Park, Azuki is both a “sushi-ya” restaurant and watering hole. We arrived at the door (beautiful glass with azuki beans inside the panels) just as the Happy Hour was ending but the friendly...

“Arbitrage” —Power is the Best Alibi

Written by diana on September 29, 2012. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on “Arbitrage” —Power is the Best Alibi

The early scenes of Arbitrage have some of the same high-finance vertigo of Margin Call or Bonfire of the Vanities. But here we have an overlay of another crime superimposed on financial fraud and wonder what, if any, consequences will follow. In this implosive thriller Richard Gere plays investment mogul Robert Miller, the suave, arrogant superego, a “master of the universe” in the Gilded Age of arbitrage and hedge funds. He is the icon of the one-percent, a silver fox who charms, cheats, and gloats in his malfeasance. Until he can’t. Wealth creates the...