Archive for the ‘world’ Category
Imagine an attic of an old mental asylum, filled with the trunks and suitcases of the now-deceased patients. Then imagine that the suitcases are found and the contents are documented to tell the stories of their former owners. Amazing stuff. My favorite story is Madeline’s.
This is encouraging news. The LDS Church has issued a press release urging alternatives to a nuclear waste dump in Skull Valley. Mormons have long been the recipients of the nation’s toxins. It’s nice that the church doesn’t want that to happen again….Picture Caption: A plume rises at the Nevada Test Site in an Operation [...]
Yesterday I send the following email message out to several friends and family members:———-Perhaps you’ve heard that the LDS Church has officially taken the position “that an amendment to the Constitution of the United States is necessary to protect and preserve the institution of marriage between a man and a woman.” The following links show [...]
1) Gotta clean the bathroom floor–the workers who snaked the tub drain on Tuesday left some messy places in the corners.2) [while gazing at shower curtain map] Colombia–why does it have such a drug problem? Is it geography-related? And why is Chile such a freaky-long skinny country?3) Thinking about recent netflix, Maria Full of Grace. [...]
Reading this on philobiblion today really made me think. Though we’ve refused to have any contact w/guns in our family (not even of the water-squirting variety), I think I need to be doing more to get the word out about gun control. Here’s a beginning: A child is killed by a gun every three hours [...]
You know, I often think of myself as quite the world traveler. Not so. Check out the rather pathetic chart above…I’m quite curious about how many countries y’all have visited. I suspect that maybe Caroline, Dora, Michael, or Mom are the most well-traveled….create your own visited country map
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” I’ve been meditating on this quotation today. Profound [...]
“Now the length of life as we shall use it here is the inward concern for one’s own welfare. In other words, it is that inward concern that causes one to push forward, to achieve his own goals and ambitions. The breadth of life as we shall use it here is the outward concern for [...]
My movie of the day was Raisin in the Sun. I watched it as I was waiting for my prosthetist to fix my leg (love the laptop w/a DVD player!!). A powerful must-see movie. Though the acting was a bit overwrought at times–as if the actors were more familiar with stage than with cinema–the sentiment [...]
Spent the morning at the “by the pound” goodwill clothing store. It’s not a store, really, just a warehouse w/open sides and rows of tables. On the tables are heaps of clothes. Mounds of clothes. All of them discards from goodwill donations. Instead of selling them by the piece, they sell them for $2/lb. I [...]
I’ll be on hiatus for awhile while I’m traveling. I may send some posts for John to add to the blog while I’m gone. But if not, you can all look forward to a big dose of China travelogue when I return. :)
This is the most sobering account of katrina that I’ve read so far. An eyewitness account from someone who spent the week trying to get help: http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/article_18337.shtml
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