{"author":"Gerry Abbey","author_id":"Gerry+Abbey","total_quotes":8,"quotes":[{"text":"Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","drinking","inspirational","memoir","southeast-asia","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing","writing"],"id":4173,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","inspirational","memoir","taiwan","travel","travel-writing"],"id":26829,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","drinking","memoir","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing"],"id":61850,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","chinese","english","language","memoir","southeast-asia","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing"],"id":168069,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","inspirational","memoir","reflection-on-life","southeast-asia","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing"],"id":177891,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","inspirational","taiwan","travel","traveling-alone"],"id":222804,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","inspirational","memoir","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing"],"id":244314,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","beer","drinking","memoir","taiwan","travel","travel-writing"],"id":320046,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}