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This year was unlike any other in my life, not only because of the Covid 19 Virus Pandemic, vaccines, mask-wearing, hand-washing, and social distancing everywhere, but even more so as my year of major cancer surgery and radiation treatments. Yet through it all I managed to keep nature central to my life most of the …
Like I think nearly all the kids of my generation my Father used to tell us about the long country miles he walked to school in all kinds of weather and indeed his generation were naturally walkers much more than mine, though I walked to school too! Just in a town! 🙂 But of course …
By 2021 I was getting emails or letters every month from people considering a move here and asking my opinion or advice. And I was writing almost the same thing every time, so, I put it in the website and future enquiries will get a link to this page! 🙂 Copying from the last letter …
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Ever since the gardeners broke my fragile pottery bird in my garden I have intended to replace it with a more substantial or concrete art and finally did that this week. This particular meditating indigenous man statue is one I’ve seen in some of the lodges I visit and liked, but not available in Atenas …
In many ways, YES! And in more than one place I have used the following Tolkien quote in relation to my nearly 7 years of continuous exploring the most magical place on earth to me – Costa Rica! “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you …
Surely I’m describing Costa Rica and I could be . . . though this time it is the title of a documentary biography I found on my new streaming service, Curiosity Stream, that replaced Netflix for me, permanently this time with a whole year of streaming costing less than one month of Netflix (a stripped …
Freshman Year In fact, this just may be the real or best story of my freshman year at the university! My first plan was to print all 75 letters here after I cropped and cleaned up the photos, but it would take too much memory here and they will be bigger and easier to read …
It is Wednesday afternoon and I got home about noon today from Hospital La Católica in downtown San Jose, our big, busy congested city and National Capital, about an hour and half drive in reality, though most people say about an hour. 🙂 I have no car and thus use my regular drivers here for …
Without a doubt, BSU was one of the biggest influences on my life development or directions of any one thing, person or activity! Of course it was tied into the big influence of Willis and Gary who were really responsible for getting me so involved. But it was more than just them! This was the …
Probably all friends have an influence on everyone’s life and life decisions, but it seems that these are the first two to have as much influence as they did, maybe the biggest influence on the biggest turning point in my life, going from medicine to ministry. I will never forget Willis Moore and Gary Stringer! …