Kairos
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When I read about a young girl who designed flip-flops and got picked up by Macy’s, I thought that was awesome. My daughter thought the girl in White House Down was also. Built-in and born with. That recognition of greatness, valor and something grander than one’s self. We might not end up being one, but we…
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It’s not an optical illusion. It’s real. Has always been there and it’s called light. But somehow, this afternoon, at the start of my run around the park, I saw a rainbow. Nature conspires to create a rainbow for Southern California. Breath-taking is its beauty. People paused and took pics from their I-phones. It’s a rare…
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Our own Duc Huy, along with Dylan, during the 80’s, sang about “the hope of redemption” and how “the heart found joy once again”. The 80’s was the time of culture war: right vs left, straight vs gay, East vs West, secular vs conservative. Thirty years on, we are faced with a different set of…
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Train, plane or automobile, we all try to get somewhere, point A to point B. Far enough to be looked at as “foreigner”. The Economist has a piece on this subject to highlight the decade of globalization. http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15108690&source=hptextfeature I was surprised to find Vietnam, especially in HCMC and Hanoi, to be very cosmopolitan i.e. a…
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