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Winter in the Siberian Steppe | Peace Corps: Kazakhstan, by Katie L. Miller
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Peace Corps: Kazakhstan, by Katie L. Miller. Join me in exploring this vast and diverse Central Asian republic! Some pics →. Winter in the Siberian Steppe. February 21, 2011. You might recall from my earlier post that banya is just a sauna where you also wash yourself. The sauna aspect is why I’ve come to love it so. There’s lots of steam and it’s very hot. I like to sit and let the sweat drip off my body – I imagine it’s clearing my pores! I don’t mean to make light of these animals’ deaths&...Last week...
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Born Into Becoming: March 2012
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A journey from seeds to roots. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.". Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Explode at liftoff in 1986 was erroneously staged in the house which we didn’t move into until 1988. A counselor friend of mine told me this might be a subconscious way of staging a traumatic event in a safer environment, which makes me wonder how many other memories have received ...But aft...
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Born Into Becoming: November 2011
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A journey from seeds to roots. Monday, November 14, 2011. I am driving, cutting. Through fields of sorghum. And soybean, but. All I can see is the dying. Day fire, glowing behind. Clouds pink and blue,. A familiar hue,. Framing your face flushed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Making Disciples As Jesus Did. Truth Seeking and Telling. And just like that. Color, Snappy Weather and Flocks of Birds. Final Thoughts (A Few Months Late). Our Story of Baby Moses. View my complete profile.
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Born Into Becoming: June 2010
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A journey from seeds to roots. Wednesday, June 2, 2010. I know the look well. It is a heartbreaking composite of hurt, astonishment, and disappointment. There's no way to count the number of times I've seen the look, but I can say with some amount of confidence that I paid no attention to it until I was about 16. Up until that point, I didn't care enough to notice. I'm not saying I'm a bad guy. But, if you haven't seen this other side of me, you will. It's only a matter of time. Sadly, there ...I saw the...
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Born Into Becoming: June 2011
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A journey from seeds to roots. Monday, June 13, 2011. I think part of what is interesting about [ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The rest of his interview with Stop Smiling. Can be found here. Thanks to John Pattison for passing this on a couple years back. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Making Disciples As Jesus Did. Truth Seeking and Telling. And just like that. Color, Snappy Weather and Flocks of Birds. Final Thoughts (A Few Months Late). Our Story of Baby Moses. View my complete profile.
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Born Into Becoming: May 2010
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A journey from seeds to roots. Friday, May 14, 2010. Brilliant, blistering sun. Beating down on head. Exposed to the brutal blanket. Of heat burning the brand,. The mark of wanderers on the back of. Your neck, behind your ears. Lips cracked, cheeks chapped,. Calloused lids worn thin by. Dust flying on the arid winds. Blowing through barren dunes adrift. On a sea of emptiness. This is the desert. And when gritty eyes open,. They see differently, clearly,. Like they were born again. You know now, like love,.
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Born Into Becoming: October 2010
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A journey from seeds to roots. Tuesday, October 5, 2010. Temples and Holy Places. My previous post has served its purpose - enough of you have asked when I'm going to post again that I feel sheepish if I sit in front of the computer and don't write. So, since there is a slight element of "forcing it", don't expect too much :o). The Dongguan Grand Mosque is on the east side of the city center, and was featured in absentia in a post last fall marking Eid al-Fitr. Which through graphic depictions of the gra...
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Born Into Becoming: July 2012
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A journey from seeds to roots. Friday, July 27, 2012. The weapons of warfare are suicidal. They cripple self,. Maiming soul and spirit. Until we are left. We are at war with God,. Striking at his image in our neighbor,. What is the knowledge. Of good and evil. To be naked and ashamed. Than forgetting the way. We laid side by side. In unformed clay,. Speak to us friends. Remind us with bleeding voices-. There are no borders. Beyond the curtain,. Where enemy and ally. Rest in the common ground. Color, Snap...