Clarks: The Bearded Man

I'm kind of tired, so I'm going to try to keep this short. But let me tell you a little bit about our tea time with The Bearded Man from here in our community:
First, he has a name. It's 施王伟.
Or, you can just call him "The Bearded Man" -- whichever works better for you.
Also (I already knew this, but maybe I haven't told you yet) he's a music teacher. In fact, he's a music composer. He brought us a book of his choral and operatic compositions.
When he first came in he was immediately taken by the Chinese paintings in our house. It turns out he's a rather traditional man who appreciates Chinese art, music, culture, and history.
He finds the homogenous cityscapes of the world rather dry and uninteresting, preferring to visit culturally unique and historically significant sights. Ex: He's travelled all over China -- including many far-flung regions -- but has never been to Hong Kong. "It's just skyscrapers."
He has a sister in America, but he's never gone to the States to visit her.
He has a daughter in graduate college -- or who teaches at a college -- I'm not really sure. Anyway, she also studies/teaches something to do with music.
Basically, he's a nice guy, middle-aged, and very interesting to talk to.
And he's either very polite, doesn't like tea, or just maybe doesn't like our tea. Or perhaps he was too involved in our discussion to bother drinking. At any rate, not much tea was consumed.
BTW: The topics that evening ranged from music to travel to culture to politics...
Anyway, that's the basic story.
One last detail: He stayed for three hours. We talked to The Bearded Man for three hours. For three grueling but enjoyable hours, we spoke with a middle-aged, well-educated, bearded man who works as a music professor and composer. And we spoke in Chinese. Only. In fact, he doesn't (apparently) speak English -- except the word "compose" -- and oh, I taught him the word "banjo" too. But other than those two words, we all spoke exclusively [Cec eventually brought in the dictionaries so we could fill in the blanks as needed -- us, not him] in Chinese for three solid hours.
Three. Straight. Solid. Hours.
We were both exhilerated and exhausted when he left.
We're humbled and thankful to live here.
Thank you for your prayers and support.
And please pray for 施王伟, The Bearded Man.