This will be my fifth Thanksgiving holiday, it’s been that long since I’ve come to America. This year, I’ve concocted a surprise date, I haven’t told him what it’s going to be, except that we’ll be leaving the house at 3:30am tomorrow and I’ve asked him to pack his sleeping bag.
We’ll let you know when […]
We’re going to England, flying Christmas Eve, to attend my cousin’s wedding and share the holidays with family and friends. At times when the weather gets cold, I wish we were closer.
Tim passed away, if you remember, he commented here often with insight and wit, he was my dad’s friend from Wales. I wrote a […]
Quote from my sociology text book (Sociology in Our Times, Diane Kendall):
“The problem of inequality lies not in poverty, but in excess. …the solution to the problem is not a massive change in the culture of poverty so as to place it on the path of development, but a massive change in the culture of […]
Like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, I clicked through pages online, first looking for places to go on Thanksgiving, then looking for teaching jobs, and eventually reading an article on child slavery. An estimated 50,000 slaves (many children from Haiti) live in homes across the United States as domestic unpaid laborers. (Read here for […]
It’s been a satisfying weekend.
My CASA girl had a team meeting. She’s a 16 year old foster child. Around the table we sat, discussing her various matters from education, behaviour, health to placement (home). I was able to bring up my idea of taking her and her cousin to the Dominican Republic next year, which […]
The boy next door just turned 9. “Do you feel any different?” I asked. “Yeah!” he shouted.
“Every year is better than the last” he said with his uniquely clear articulation, heavy on the “r”.
“Sometimes a lot better, and sometimes a little better. But better”.
“In fact”, he paused, “every Day is better than the last […]
Quote from the Book of Tea
“Art is being in the world, for it deals with the present - ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life […]
I’d forgotten I’d brought it from Japan a while back. Flipping through the pages, I remember now, I crash-landed my emotional roller coaster in the summer of 2000.
Some excerpts:
“I just rang a paranormal analyst in demand for an explanation of the whirlpool I’m in, but she seemed tired at the other end of the phone, […]
First off, we’d buy land. And build a few simple eco houses for us and current/future extended families.
Then, we’ll pay off all our family’s home mortgages, so their home becomes theirs. No part of it would belong to any bank.
The rest I’d like to lend to trusted friends, so they can buy their land and […]
A recent introduction to Gapminder.org has made me a fan. The website offers world statistics (like income, weather, health, technology patents, population, etc.) allowing the users to choose the X and Y variables to create a timeline of moving colourful bubble graphs. To do this, go to Gapminder World, and choose your own variables by clicking on the axis titles; […]
