Welcome to provocative conversations from Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host, James Navé.
In this episode, I record on location in Taipei, Taiwan, tracing a single day as it unfolds—from morning rain and quiet memorial grounds to crowded streets, shared meals, and a luminous night market. What emerges is a listening-based travelogue: part reportage, part reflection, part improvisation.
The episode moves through the scale and symbolism of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, galleries dedicated to art, democracy, and human rights, and parks where qigong, tai chi, birds, and water slow the pace of the day. Along the way, ordinary moments take on meaning: standing in line for noodles, watching a heron fish, noticing alleyways, scooters, fabric, sound, and gesture.
As evening arrives, the city gathers in the night market—dense, bright, kinetic—before the day closes in a quiet listening room and a hotel window overlooking the turn from 2025 to 2026. Throughout the episode, questions surface about disruption and order, impermanence and continuity, attention and belonging.
This is not a guidebook or a debate. It’s an invitation to listen closely—to place, to movement, and to the way meaning forms when we slow down enough to notice what’s already there.
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Welcome to provocative conversations from Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host, James Navé.
In this episode, I record on location in Taipei, Taiwan, tracing a single day as it unfolds—from morning rain and quiet memorial grounds to crowded streets, shared meals, and a luminous night market. What emerges is a listening-based travelogue: part reportage, part reflection, part improvisation.
The episode moves through the scale and symbolism of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, galleries dedicated to art, democracy, and human rights, and parks where qigong, tai chi, birds, and water slow the pace of the day. Along the way, ordinary moments take on meaning: standing in line for noodles, watching a heron fish, noticing alleyways, scooters, fabric, sound, and gesture.
As evening arrives, the city gathers in the night market—dense, bright, kinetic—before the day closes in a quiet listening room and a hotel window overlooking the turn from 2025 to 2026. Throughout the episode, questions surface about disruption and order, impermanence and continuity, attention and belonging.
This is not a guidebook or a debate. It’s an invitation to listen closely—to place, to movement, and to the way meaning forms when we slow down enough to notice what’s already there.
What the Wind Whispers
—James Navé
Forever
and without trouble,
I start now.
No force
or struggle,
swimming along,
no knots.
I tap at your door.
Will you join me?
Let's go down
the willow path,
past the old trees
that understand,
troubled yesterdays
When the dance
comes in time, without
the will of fierce wind,
I will tell you about the secret
that visits me often
coming through the window.
Here's what the wind whispers.
“fire will do when you crack
the young flowers open
in the blue whale rain
that falls from days gone by.”
When will I be able to say
I belong to the rain?
Who will check on me,
kiss me when spring comes
after the long cold?
Take me to the first party
before the sky goes white
like old bones left alone
on the side of a hill
where cougars roam
and stars pop out at dusk.
I wish I had more time
to tell you about
what I did this morning,
when I rose early,
still dark,
no sound—late stars in the sky.
I walked to the kitchen,
made a coffee,
then sat down, alone
like some small blue whale
floating in the air.
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Welcome to provocative conversations from Twice 5 Miles Radio. I’m your host, James Navé.
In this episode, I record on location in Taipei, Taiwan, tracing a single day as it unfolds—from morning rain and quiet memorial grounds to crowded streets, shared meals, and a luminous night market. What emerges is a listening-based travelogue: part reportage, part reflection, part improvisation.
The episode moves through the scale and symbolism of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, galleries dedicated to art, democracy, and human rights, and parks where qigong, tai chi, birds, and water slow the pace of the day. Along the way, ordinary moments take on meaning: standing in line for noodles, watching a heron fish, noticing alleyways, scooters, fabric, sound, and gesture.
As evening arrives, the city gathers in the night market—dense, bright, kinetic—before the day closes in a quiet listening room and a hotel window overlooking the turn from 2025 to 2026. Throughout the episode, questions surface about disruption and order, impermanence and continuity, attention and belonging.
This is not a guidebook or a debate. It’s an invitation to listen closely—to place, to movement, and to the way meaning forms when we slow down enough to notice what’s already there.
