A Half-Day Leisure! (偷了半天的閒暇)

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Thanks to the Lord for our good friend Ms. Grace Chang had more "free time" today than usual, so Jean and I could naturally invite her to our home after attending the Sunday service at St. James' Church.

We then went to Walker Cafe (行者咖啡) and the Glutinous Rice Bridge (糯米橋) in my hometown Guoxing in the afternoon. The pleasant trip reminded me of the well-known poetic line in Chinese: "偷得浮生半日閒" -- which literally means "[I or We or Someone else]  have (or has) stolen a half-day leisure." 

Yes, we've been given a half-day leisure... (See photos.) 

See also the Chinese proverb below, as well as the original Chinese poem from which the second half of the proverb is taken: 

自古人生何其樂，

偷得浮生半日閒。

----- 諺語

上述二句俗諺，乃後人配搭而得，其中「偷得浮生半日閒」這家喻戶曉的詩句，出自唐朝李涉之手，原詩如下：

終日昏昏醉夢間，

忽聞春盡強登山；

因過竹院逢僧話，

偷得浮生半日閑。

----- 唐朝詩人 李涉 的詩《題鶴林寺僧舍》

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