Part One — Leaving Thailand I decided in February of 2008 to leave my tribe of Burmese refugees in a village near the Moei River and return to China for more nomadic experiences. After two years of helping them gain a toe-hold in Thailand, I felt they could be trusted to care for themselves, with […]
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I arrived at the Yanji airport at nearly midnight on March 10th, 2008, after traveling overland through Thailand, Laos and China to Kunming — where I took a couple of flights to finish the journey. Of course, the first thing I noticed was that it was ‘damn’ cold. Yanji reminded me a lot of Ulaanbaatar, […]
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My introduction to a Mongolian winter was from 2002-03 as I had just arrived from six months teaching kids in Kunsan, South Korea. In my new job, I was working for a language school called Santis at the time and they were located downtown — just a block from the Mongolian Parliament building. It was […]
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“Balance is a state of being, a state of calmness and extreme stillness amidst the chaos and turmoil that passes itself off as being the ‘true’ reality in which we live. Like a tornado, which weaves its chaotic magic by creating destruction, devastation and imbalance with and within everything it touches, so too does man. […]
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I first arrived in Kathmandu in 1989 from India. Beginning in 1988 I had started my M.A. studies and for the next few years I spent half of each year in India and half in Nepal. I had no idea at the time that I would stay in Nepal from when I graduated in 1991 […]
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I remember well the year my father died around 20 years ago. I was studying in India and staying at the Prem Nagar Ashram in Haridwar, U.P. (north India). I was out of touch with my family so a letter from my mother informing me of his death didn’t arrive until a month after he […]
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I arrived in India during the first half of 1985 after completing a semester of studies in Jerusalem, Israel. I first attended a month-long orientation after meeting my school’s center director and the one other student who was in India at the time. We made a small group that traveled around while I decided where […]
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This story is 20 years old as I find myself writing it in 2008 — presently, I have finished working in Thailand and am on holiday in Laos before returning to Chengdu in China where I’ve previously worked. The story’s message has a deeper meaning for me now as I have shared some of my […]
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I am finally getting around to writing this page after being back in Chengdu for more than four months. I have ridden my bicycle around town from one side of the city to the other and around it on one or another of the four ring roads that encircle it. A round trip on the […]
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Little did I know, while teaching in a Catholic school I wanted to leave in Taiwan in 2005, that I would end up jumping out of the ‘frying pan’ of one religious school into the ‘fire’ of another. Having been born into this world as the son of a Christian minister, religion and its system […]
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