Yerong Li
Notes on love, films, sport, music, and the small weather of ordinary days.
Melbourne-based, mostly writing in Chinese and English.
Currently Thinking about love as practice, tennis as philosophy, and cinema as a way to briefly live elsewhere.
Themes
All writing
Moral Practice
Love, ethics, relationships, and the self revealed through action.
Field Notes
City observations, encounters, and memory made concrete.
Frames
Film notes and the images that keep echoing after the screen goes dark.
Infinite Game
Running, tennis, rhythm, persistence, and long forms of practice.
Fragments
Poems, quotes, lists, and smaller pieces of orientation.
Recent Notes
Archive- Qianqian A memory of first meetings, public strangeness, childlike gestures, attraction, and the shock of encountering someone who carries a complete inner world.
- On_Love A long answer to what one seeks in romantic love: not passive fulfillment, but a moral practice through which action reveals the self.
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running As Well A collection of marked passages from Murakami's running memoir, circling rhythm, self-competition, discipline, aging, and writing as thinking.
- Ascendence Remix A short note for an experimental remix of Kenny Garrett and Svoy's Ascendence, with an embedded audio track.