我的村庄

村庄把尘土交给我,迷乱了翻看荒老时光的眼睛;生活把五味交付给我,业已缺失的味蕾陷进亘古的丛莽,让咀嚼显得分外苍白……——题记一     

我的北漂岁月

"月儿伴星舞,唯有我孤独!"我轻吟着,隔着破旧的铁窗望向深邃的黑夜,看不到闪亮的星空,只有黑黑的静静的夜色。慢慢地,我     

照片背后的故事

我曾因一张极其普通的照片招惹了一场祸端。30年过去了,这张照片背后的故事却依然历历在目,使我终生难忘。     

远冬

生命中又迎来一个冬天,我像等一位老朋友一样期盼雪快点降临我的身旁。一直有冬日情结,是因为喜欢冬日漫天的飞雪,喜欢雪花轻轻飘落的飘逸,喜欢独坐窗前静听雪花飘落时如花开的     

博

一株幼苗生长在贫瘠的山岭上,忍受着日晒雨淋,狂风冰雹,然而它坚毅地终于长成为一棵浓阴蔽日的参天大树。     

童话

如果一边是山林,一边是大海,而我只能选择一种,我选山林。我渴望身处一片深秋的山林中,天色灰白,雾气沼沼,到处是金色的树叶儿,像是精灵的眼睛,可以看进心里面。静悄悄的,又好象有音乐在心底里流动,是呼吸声,是河水声,是鸟儿在歌唱,是西风在呜咽。     

红星杨赞

振叶于烽火连天的战场,展姿于暖风频吹的山野,如一顶巨大的绿伞,支撑在北方辽阔的大地上。谁有你的笔挺,如一尊石峰巍然高矗在天地之间。谁有你的茂盛,粗壮的枝干加碧叶营造了     

挚友蔡世骥

2006年5月10日,挚友蔡世骥走完了人生的全部旅程,平静地走了,享年70岁。此前,他打来电话,说肺癌已经扩散,不用说写作,就是看东西都很吃力。我劝了几句,似乎有一定作用。第二天又来电话,与我讨论《中国历代战史》的整理问题,我劝他等病好一点再说,他答应了。此后再接到的电话,是他老伴熊玉兰的哭声,我似挨了一记闷棍,不知所措,禁不住悲从中来。     

漾濞老街

在炎夏凉风初袭的清晨,我又一次踏进了这条安静的老街。两旁大多古旧的民居一如往常地安静,有早起的女人在默默地清扫门前的街面;花白头发的老者,穿着白色的短裤背心,在门檐下努力地伸腿弯腰;一匹从远处村寨赶早而来的栗色马,被主人赶着,驮着一驮桃子亦或是李子进城来,马蹄脆脆地踏过老街古老的石路。     

乌尤山月

落日的余晖渐渐散去，最后的一抹斜阳也消失在峨眉山峦边。暮霭中，眨眼间天空由血红变成了淡紫，再又转为灰蓝。何时月升东方，凌云乌尤山影绰绰，江面上烟波迷茫，嘉州山水越发显得旷远出尘。[第一段]     

Life and death at precolumbian Lavoutte,Saint Lucia,Lesser Antilles

Abstract

The Caribbean archaeological record requires immediate attention and protection. Development and natural forces have impacted archaeological sites, destroying or severely damaging them. The precolumbian site of Lavoutte, located in northern Saint Lucia, has been known as a major Late Ceramic Age (a.d. 1000–1500) settlement since the 1960s, but it has been damaged over the past decades by both natural and human processes. Multidisciplinary field and laboratory methodologies were implemented during a rescue project at the site from 2009 to 2010. This paper presents the results of collaborative efforts between local and international organizations. The first goal was to demonstrate the importance of protection and rescue of endangered archaeological sites. Secondly, we aimed to show that by adopting a multidisciplinary approach including artifact analysis, bioarchaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and geochemistry, severely damaged sites can be of significant informational value.     

The struggle of dutch transport regions: Life and death of a regional planning concept

In the Netherlands it was commonly believed that a comprehensive regional transport policy was the only way of achieving the objectives of national transport policy. A new institution was created: the transport region. Expectations ran high, but many transport regions never reached the implementation stage. Analysis of the national policy and the actual development of the transport regions shows a continuous struggle between the transport region as a policy concept on the one hand and the transport region as an administrative institution on the other. The anticlimax that resulted from this struggle seems to have been inevitable: the transport regions have officially been abolished. Their role has been taken over by the provinces. On the one hand, this provides opportunities for avoiding the mistakes made in the past. On the other hand, this shift holds threats, which may obstruct the making and implementation of effective regional transport policy.     

Life and death on a Barbadian sugar plantation: historic and bioarchaeological views of infection and mortality at Newton Plantation

Despite the rise in African Diaspora bioarchaeology, poor preservation and sampling bias has impeded Caribbean research. Paleodemography and infectious diseases are assessed here for 46 skeletons exhumed in 1997–98 from a slave cemetery at Newton Plantation (ca. 1660–1820). Life expectancy is closer to historic predictions than in earlier craniodental studies. High rates of periosteal infection were encountered but no evidence of specific skeletal diseases. Absence of sequelae does not support Newton as a healthy population relative to others. Rather, extreme stress, particularly for Newton females, is evidenced by the lowest relative mean age at death of any diaspora skeletal sample, and many mild to moderate lower limb infections in men, women and adolescents attest to injuries on the sugar gangs. Activity stress and abuse, coupled with disease and malnutrition, culminated in high mortality and replacement. This first comprehensive study of health on a Caribbean sugar plantation contributes to a growing biology of the African Diaspora and over three decades of Newton Plantation research. Specifically, it demonstrates the importance of systemic, multidisciplinary and comparative approaches to reconstructing the complex life stresses of slavery. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Your Life,My Life

故事要从同事小朱最近收养两只流浪猫说起。自从加入我们这个动物福利单位以来,小朱对动物的爱心渐渐膨胀起来,上个月竟“一不小心”收养了两只流浪猫。两只猫倒也不讲究先来后到、论资排辈,很快结成了嬉戏合作伙伴关系,但对小朱和他那不到50平米的出租房来说,负担却有点太重了。这事儿甚至惊动了他在家乡的妈妈,老太太特意打电话来,勒令他不得“超养”,净化“人性空间”,以免玩猫丧志。