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Jan.25.2010
"Mother Gives Birth to 18th Child."
A newspaper article about my mother was printed in the Philadelphia Bulletin on October 10th 1958, has been found after fifty-one years. The original copy that our family has is torn and holds no photo. I tried many times to locate...
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Jan.22.2010
What do you think the following word means?
虚誕 (kyotan)
The first kanji, 虚 (KYO, KO, muna(shii)), means “empty” or “false,” as we saw long ago. You may recognize 誕 from 誕生日 (tanjōbi: birthday, to be born + to be born + day), where 誕 means “to be born, birth.” So 虚誕 is a false birth?! No, 誕 has...
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Oct.16.2009
Well, so much for giving blogging serious attention ...
But I have been writing!!!
Some of you may have already checked out my website about Earth Horoscopes. If you haven't here's an article I recently wrote: http://www.themodernpagan.net/?p=543
If you believe in our connection...
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Aug.01.2009
Seeing Through God’s Eyes
No matter how faithful we may be, we cannot always see the full picture or understand why things are happening as they are. We may feel frustrated that our dreams and visions have been postponed by the immediate needs around us, but once we are...
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Jul.31.2009
July 31
MY BABIES
Too often I have abandoned the infants of my creativity to doorways and charities. Having little patience I did not raise them to their intended station. Joyful parentage need not stop at the cutting of the cord. Downplaying the importance of each birth, I would leave...
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Jun.12.2009
When should the public visual record of your kid’s life start? This is a tricky question, sort of like “Does life begin at conception, at a certain point in pregnancy, or at the moment of birth”? I’m not going to touch that one with a 200 hundred foot pole. But if you want to have a permament...
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May.18.2009
Guess what? Are you sitting down? With all the excitement about my recent accolades, I forgot to mention the most important news of all. My book, "Cryo Kid -- Drawing a New Map" (www.cryokid.com) is written in part about the discovery of eight half-siblings (scattered across the U.S.) for...
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Apr.23.2009
A postscript to yesterday's blog flashed into my mind. When? In the middle of the night, of course. That's when I awakened to this disturbing thought: Our inherited genes are the result of the mating of our biological parents, right? So if science can potentially create a single person's biological...
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Jun.23.2008
We can't look back from 40 years later with the clear view of distance because we haven't got there yet. Nevertheless, my book, Cryo Kid - Drawing a New Map (www.cryokid.com), takes an optimistic view of the family in a rapidly changing (and challenging) age where new social units are forming,...
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May.27.2008
There was a story I once heard about a woman – an ordinary woman of the sort you meet every day – who gave birth to children and raised them, and that was that. “Goodbye, my dears,” she said, giving each one a kiss. Off they went, those adult children, self-sufficient and sturdy. And...
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