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Here Be Dragons - by Jeff Chu 朱天慧

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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,

Thursday, February 8 Grand Rapids, Mich. 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. Year of the Dragon stamps from Hong Kong, 1988, designed by Kan…

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