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Of late, we’ve been pre-friending online. Then came our face to face get-together: dress and cross-dress to impress. Pressing the flesh. Pushing the schedule, re-arranging the furniture, setting up the sound system and of course, bringing in the food. Voila! We’ve got a venue, a mini-event. A party. Every fifteen minutes or so, as if…
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Looks as if we were stuck with one another for a while on spaceship Earth. Did not ask for it. Can’t get off it. Might as well live with it. “It” here involving the virus, with Climate Change and as in the case of my daughter, breast cancer. I have travelled a lot, stepped on…
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What kind of Creator who allows the worst to happen to my most loved? What in the world does He think He is, playing God, throwing the dice around. My daughter, barely out of the gate, with full life ahead of her. Now, unrecognizable (no hair, thick glasses and covid mask). That face which I…
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In Sierra Leone, a fuel tanker and a truck collided. Both drivers got out unharmed. But the crowd converged to “conserve” fuel (that leaks out). Result? lots of burned deaths. In Houston, a crowd surge at Astroworld, resulted in 8 dead and many injured. Two societies, two mentalities. Same results. One saves resources, the other…
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We came from outside of Saigon, yet we are labeled: “Miss Saigon”. Agent Orange, B-52 carpet bombing, and of course, Strategic Hamlet campaign drove us there, a city of a little over 1 Million before the war. Why not. A Shakespearean saga, Vietnamese version: “selling your body” for the greater good. A transaction; nothing more…
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Every decade or so, we come across a new variation and version of the Ponzi scheme: old people – instead of being on cruise trips – end up being in court, to deliberate and persecute perpetrators, whether it’s a Christian radio host who promises of a new Kingdom or a Credit Suisse/Archegos guy (also a…
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Booster 1, booster 2 etc… EcoPeace for the Middle East. Water thieves, catalytic-convertor thieves… I.D. theft, Honda Civic theft… Evangelical fired, evangelical re-hired… Greta giving up on politicians, politicians giving up on Trump, Trump giving up on Twitter, Twitter giving up on Trump… Just a tip of the iceberg today. And it’s only Wednesday, our…
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I resent those who tell me how to live, who to become and what path to take. After all, I grew up in a household with 4 adults – in shifts – just for that: do’s and don’t’s. Further up, all those “institutions” (tuition and instructors) from French lycée to Mandarin-oriented HS, from “secular” campus…
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You’ll get there, that I am sure. When time runs out. Others will gladly take your places. Vacancy. space. possession. Life is like a big hotel, where no one can claim monopoly: it’s my domain my throne. We are around just for the ride yet we think/act as if we were made of teflon: like…
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On a fly, I just booked it. Screw it, let’s do it. It’s now or never. It’s autumn. It’s Vermont and New Hampshire. It’s the leaves, the times of our lives. I know those who sang “forever young” are now dead. Delusion. Self-deception. We, human, carry a capacity to lie to ourselves. That everything is…
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