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Triona Ryan

Alone in Our Anxiety? The Interesting Times in which We May Live

We interupt our regularly scheduled program of aaaaggghhhhhh..... To feel accepted. To feel secure. To flourish in life is a common goal for one and all right now. That which fuels the soul is a valued commodity these days, in...

Evolution; Never Ever Will I Ever Miss…

I, for one, will miss Prince Philip’s fabulously frank commentary on the century that best represents Humanity’s cognitive evolution as a species. His assertion to Malala Yousafzai, Human Rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, that children, “go to...

An Open-Source Vaccine Utopia for those who Know No Different?

“All men by nature desire to know.” Aristotle- Metaphysics, 350 B.C.E. At the dusk of International Women’s Day, 2021, I pen these words. On a keyboard. ‘Coz that’s how we roll. “Open source,” I ask some friends; friends who generally know...

No More Shell Shock Nor Gnarly Vegetables

This time last year… The phrase that recently lit up social media is both poignant and sickening in equal parts. When Covid 19 began subjectively for each of us is a tale our grandchildren shall endure on par with...

Asking Ourselves “What is truth” in a Post-COVID World?

Certain truths seem inimitable, like: Age is just a number.  Wrong! Age is a word. Friedrich Nietzsche helpfully explains in Human, All too Human (1878), “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.”  Postmodernist, post structuralist, post “Life Jim, but not...

Water; Meeting Point of Chinese Philosophy and Martial Arts


"Nothing in the worldIs as soft and yielding as water.Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible,Nothing can surpass it." Preeminent Chinese philosopher, Laozi (老子) The Old Boy, Laozi, is one of China’s most renowned philosophers. Hailing from Quren, a hamlet in...

Midway Upon the Journey of Our Life

“Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” (The Divine Comedy; Dante Alighieri) Do you remember when you were little, thinking “I can’t wait ‘til...

Mega Brunch Makes Debut in Nanjing

2020 has been a long decade. But it is indeed true that good things come to those who wait. Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for! Brunch in Nanjing, at the Ritz Carlton.  We ventured downtown...

About Me

Educator, writer, minstrel and Collector of Rare and Marvelous Moments; Triona Ryan, born in Ireland, moved to Spain for the summer back in 2003 and stayed for a decade. Now based in Nanjing, China, she spends her free time feeding her cats, picking cushions off the floor and pondering the paradoxes of the human condition. She also sings, often and everywhere.
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