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memories start flooding back: most unassuming guy I have ever met: Life-long friends are hard to come about e.g. Fire and Rain by James Taylor: “I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rainI seen sunny days that I thought would never endI seen lonely times when I could not find a friendBut I always thought that…
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Landed at Harrisburg, PA at night, on a seatless transcontinental UNHCR flight, I remember the streets were dark and damp. Welcome to America, its Northeast. Then after a winding bus trip (about two hours), we got to our assigned barrack. There were a chapel and a volleyball court nearby. Of course, we took for granted…
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I could recall laying there at Tu Du maternity ward, looking up and following my sister as she was shy and stepped away. My sister was already in college, but my parent hadn’t had babies for the good decade and a half. Something about resettling in in the South and bore fruits (comfort baby). Then…
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LIFE Naturally, no one had a choice. We just were. We were born into a social setting: siblings and society. Most times, we grew up together. My case, they (brother and sister) were in college with a baby brother. Leos, ruled by the Sun, with a Life Path Number 3, and a blend of confidence,…
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How to handle the ups and downs. One respects clean-as-a-whistle winners. The race involves rules of engagement, challenges (Boston Heart-break-hill) and time limits. In short, the measures at the moment. One’s life (around 77 years) vs the machine (near permanent efficiency given full maintenance and upgrade). Farmers and miners, machine and man. All strive to…
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Half a decade is long enough for facts to turn history. Post-Vietnam generation has grown up and grown old. Victimized or victorious, memories of war would soon recede and retreat further, through a thin veil or dense fog (in the Deer Hunter’s fictional tale, a steel-town window screen). The other day, while listening to music…
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Another one bites the dust. My neighbor. A successful and goodlooking medical doctor. Second generation Franco-Vietnamese. His other two surviving younger brothers also inherited good genes, also are successful by all measures. Good genes precipitate good outcome. Most times. At least, they help us out against the test of time before our uninvited guest, the…
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Mr. Malone. Coming to peace with his past. Wild ride and wild West. Friend of Ted Turner and Ruppert Murdoch, sponsor of the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, most of all, escaped a “grisly” death together with Craig McCaw. Late 90’s saw a media tectonic shift from analog to digital. Howard Jonas saw VoIP and reaped a reward.…
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It’s Spring forward. Losing only to gain one hour back. Losing life? No way to gain it back. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life so others may live. We are told to be honorable, good, true, equanimous, magnanimous and upright regardless until…. e.g. KKK assassination trial (justice…
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