Here Be Dragons - by Jeff Chu 朱天慧

Tomorrow night, we bid farewell to the rabbit and we greet the dragon. We’ll have a quiet Chinese New Year in our house this year. Last year, we celebrated with friends who are like family, filling a crowded table with all manner of delicacies. But this go-round, our schedule is more complicated. I’m heading to North Carolina to preach at Crosspointe this weekend, so a relatively simple New Year’s Eve dinner will suffice, and then I’ll spend the first of our dragon days on an airplane. Notes of a Make-Believe Farmer is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid Maybe it’s better that way, given how grumpy I am as we welcome the dragon. For one thing, the rabbit didn’t live up to its billing as a bearer of peace and an avatar of calm. I suppose that’s why these creatures are symbols, not promises; humankind still has to choose to act accordingly. For another, I was on Instagram the other morning,

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