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Dec.31.2012
THANK YOU TO ALL MY DEAREST FRIENDS ON RED ROOM FOR READING MY BLOGS AND FOR GETTING ME TO 200,026 ON MY DASHBOARD AS OF TONIGHT, THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR IN 2012. SOMEHOW I BELIEVE THIS COMING YEAR WILL BRING GOOD THINGS TO ALL OF US. WORDS ARE LETTING ME DOWN NOW. MUST BE THE WEAKEST BLOG I HAVE...
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Dec.05.2012
On page 106 of the previous book by Professor Ueki, I pointed out to him that "vara-dundubhi-svara (the most excellent drum owner)" reminded me of American rock. I was thinking of the songs by Niel Sedaka or Paul Anka in 60s. The backup singers’ chorus sounded like "dundubhi dowa dowa...
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Apr.05.2012
This week, I watched a German film "3," which involved a married couple and their lover, a story about a very fluid triangle. Yet the triangle for me wasn't the most exciting aspect of this film, though the story was good and interesting and involved coincidence. What caught my attention...
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Mar.02.2012
A Facebook friend posted that he has gone running for 425 days straight, logging in a whopping 4,463 miles. In response, his Japanese friend wrote this comment:
素晴らしい継続力ですね。Wonderful ability to stick to it!
素晴らしい (すばらしい: wonderful); 継続力 (けいぞくりょく: stick-to-it-ness)
The word 継続力 arrested me, and...
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Nov.11.2011
I’m not good at remembering people’s name. But lately, my memory has been improving. I think I owe it to a chain of coincidences.
First, I meet a woman in my beginning Arabic language class, and I can remember her name right away. Why?...
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Nov.11.2011
I’m not good at remembering people’s name. But lately, my memory has been improving. I think I owe it to a chain of coincidences.
First, I meet a woman in my beginning Arabic language class, and I can...
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May.26.2011
Loneliness is the absence of the other. Aloneness is the presence of the Self ~ ...
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Aug.27.2010
I have often thought to myself that I wished I had asked more questions of my grandmother sooner, but I wouldn’t have understood it all because I didn’t know all the Spanish words she used. She spoke in Spanish only, and I in Spanish with her when I could, and English when I couldn’t find the...
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Jun.24.2010
With two kids home from school for the summer (one of them is visiting grandparents in Europe), personal engagements seem to find their place at the bottom of the proverbial list. When it was suggested to me by a friend that I should go meet the owner of Abagayle’s Books and Collectibles in...
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May.19.2010
In immersion, we do not lose ourselves in the complete engulfment—we actually expand and transform. In this complete connection with an other, whether that is with another person, God, nature, idea, piece of artwork or music, humankind, or universe, we are enriched, strengthened, comforted,...
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