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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain And many of you know that Mark Twain’s spirit is …
From my years in Nashville, TN USA I remember the unique “Bag Lady” she was often called as a seemingly homeless beggar living on the streets of downtown Nashville and always carrying one or more bags full of who knows what? I’m sorry I never got to know her or her story. I was reminded …
Here is the schedule of Christmas Festivities at Central Park Atenas with the stage being on government property across the street this year with park being remodeled. Lots of music and a lanterns parade at night plus more with vendor booths set up on the outer edges of the park — remodeling not stopping the …
Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ~Gustave Flaubert Above is one of my photos of The Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. My home continent may eventually have the most trips and/or photos because this is where I was most of my life and there is so …
Last year after Christmas I took the potted Poinsettia I had had inside and planted it in my garden. When I recently asked my gardeners to “thin out” my garden, well . . . they really thinned it out including the removal of my poinsettia which was not doing well anyway. So today I looked …
I plan to write about the overwhelming emotions when I first arrived in Dakar, Senegal for the beginning of my 3 years in the Gambia – all the people, expectations, and challenges that were clouded by cultural and language differences that I was unsure I could navigate. Then I will tell about those many meeting …
That’s my new Kindle Fire HD 8 above beside a real book I’m also reading. It is my second Kindle ever and 1 inch taller which does make the print a little larger and easier to read, but there are some things I don’t like as well as on my old 5-year-old Kindle. First, the …
Though I did not eat in a lot of local homes in The Gambia, when I did it was always eating from a common bowl of rice with something poured over it, usually some vegetable with root-vegetables in the majority, fish or more rarely chicken. But the most lasting image was the poor family that …
This vacant lot looks like it is being made into a parking lot and if so, parkers will have the colorful mural on one side of where they park. We don’t have a lot of parking lots in Atenas with the old-fashion expectation of parking on the street, but as we grow and more people …
WARNING: Please Don’t Read if Politics Offend You! The header photo above is Bribri Watsi Waterfalls, Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica where I was two weeks ago. Warmer there than Atenas. El Mejor Clima del Mundo = The Best Weather in the World That is the Chamber of Commerce slogan for the small …
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