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The View from Here
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Monday, August 19, 2013. Overlander Project: Two Monks and a Lady. I had been feeling quite lost on the day I first met her. 8221; to what is so often a “no” in Asian cultures, especially Muslim ones. It was a good thing, in fact, that she was a traveler, and never long in on...
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The View from Here: January 2010
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Sunday, January 3, 2010. I was a little afraid of this game. If I lost too often would my destiny be captured somehow? Would I become this dread thing, this “old maid”? Thus does what we fear most turn out to be what we most wanted – so often. Labels: childhood in the fifties.
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The View from Here: June 2013
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Monday, June 17, 2013. Excerpt From the Overlander Project - To Speak with Parisians. My teacher was a precise balding man of forty or so, a preening egotist where language was concerned – “Parisians tell me I speak completely without an accent! These I more or less mastered ...
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The View from Here: July 2015
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. In Memory of Kathy Epling. Gone from us June 14, 2015. Cesca's talk at her Garberville memorial. July 19, 2015. From Outside the Windows blog Feb 2013 “One Starfish at a Time”. It was like a shock to the heart. I have been very lucky in my life. ...
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The View from Here
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. In Memory of Kathy Epling. Gone from us June 14, 2015. Cesca's talk at her Garberville memorial. July 19, 2015. From Outside the Windows blog Feb 2013 “One Starfish at a Time”. It was like a shock to the heart. I have been very lucky in my life. ...
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The View from Here: May 2014
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Friday, May 9, 2014. A challenge from Fabienne at Vajrapani to create an ultra short story around a metaphor used in Buddhist teachings on emptiness. This was the result. From where she sat in the mothers chair in the corner of the infant critical care unit, Tara. Fully for t...
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The View from Here: December 2011
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Travel well old friend. You will be remembered long upon this earth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Buddha on a Midnight Sea. Children's Voyage, The Long Journey Home. There aren't cards for the dying. Scene of the Crime. THE EDIT Coming in December.
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The View from Here: August 2013
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Monday, August 19, 2013. Overlander Project: Two Monks and a Lady. I had been feeling quite lost on the day I first met her. 8221; to what is so often a “no” in Asian cultures, especially Muslim ones. It was a good thing, in fact, that she was a traveler, and never long in on...
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The View from Here: March 2011
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The View from Here. Observations, Poems, and Essays by Francesca Hampton. I am a 60 something Californian, former world traveler of the back packing variety, a Buddhist, a writer, photographer, and teacher. View my complete profile. Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Remembering David Crockett Stuart. But one story at least I will share with you dear readers, for now. You might find it thought-provoking, as I have. Sounded much more like serial murder than noble service. I was also dismayed by the news that his...
