Archive for January, 2010
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
The Nightmare of Haiti will continue
The terrible tragedy of the massive earthquake in Haiti brings back memories of June 1967 when an earthquake struck a small city outside of Istanbul. At the time of the earthquake, I was sleeping in a bed in a dormitory on the top floor of a hostel in Istanbul. I was travelling along the hippy [...]
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Sixty reasons plus one to love India
On the long train journey from New Delhi to Gaya, late due mostly due to fog, I wrote down 60 reasons to love India after reading an article in the Sunday Times of India in the home of Prama and Ranji on 60 reasons for the people of India to love India.
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
An Eye-Opening Moment and Creative Concentration ahead
I love reading and writing poetry. In the early 1990’s, I self published (often called vanity publishing) a small book of around 100 of my poems and continued to write poems in various bursts since then in response to numerous situations – personal, the voice of others, spiritual, social and global events.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Are we going to allow the Earth to go to Hell?
We had this remarkable situation with a total of 192 countries signing up to attend the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark last month.
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
One Good Deed Deserves a Fall
I am not an authority of the English winter. It is 44 years since I last spent a full winter in England without leaving the country for a warmer climate. I last experienced the full length of the winter in the UK in 1966.
