Relocating

My virtual blog presence is changing to another site. I expect that the content on this site will remain intact.

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The trek from Sundarijal to Chisopani

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Day 8 of 10

I have rafted on rivers fed from the Himalayas (with some hair-raising moments in the water), sat in buddhist and hindu temples, and walked the countryside for three days in the company of a local guide. A small spot of health problems overcome with locally procured medications. More to come.
CHISOPANI [...]

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Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.

So, my first adventure was getting the word from the BWI lady that it was good that I had a Visa already – her computer flagged my destination, where I sit typing these words, as requiring this. Apparently I would have not been allowed to travel forward, in her mind; though that’s hard [...]

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Question for Obama:

“What do you think about the current legal regimen of admission quotas by race and gender for access to higher education?”

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Just molecules..

I have on my bookshelf a figure of a Buddha. In this particular representation, Prince Siddhartha is not shown with one hand touching the ground, which is a representation often used when the sculptor is trying to express the moment of his “enlightenment.” I picked this artifact [...]

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Rant

Excerpt of a rant of mine over at kingdomrain.net:
“Are you saying it’s scandalous to believe in young-earth creationism?”

Among other reasons, it is why I no longer identify myself as “Evangelical” – only as Christian.
Is it scandalous to believe in young earth creationism? Not per se. It is scandalous to pretend to [...]

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The horsemen of the Apocolypse

An encounter with an old friend brings this rueful observation out in conversation: She makes money off from famine, her significant other makes money off from war, and I make money from pain and sickness.

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I’d just like to say….

.. some things to some of the family members of those who find themselves in my Hospital Unit.
- I’m not the reason your loved one is here.
- Asking “has the Doctor been in yet?” is the surest way to drive the bedside nurse in a Critical Care Unit up the wall; especially if you don’t [...]

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Cumulus II

The short range forecast for this week calls for thunderstorms in the Carolinas, and bedevils my plan to go to the Outer Banks during a carefully schemed 6 day vacation, and thus I contemplate other options.

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