It's all in the ankle. Or maybe it's the hamstring? At any rate, I recently realized that nearly two years in China has not made a competent squatter of me. I'm still wobbly because I squat on the balls of my feet like some silly foreigner. Now that I recognize the problem, I'm making an effort to get my heels down. It isn't easy; try it yourself. Can you do it?

The bottom photo, by the way, is a game of Chinese chess being played on a board chalked on the sidewalk, using playing pieces made of scraps of paper with the symbols handwritten on them.