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Alan

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joined on 08/30/05
last updated 02/19/08
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Which are you?

"Society honours its living conformists and its dead troublemakers,"--Mignon McLaughlin
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Fifteen years ago, a friend of mine in Sooke told me about a logging campsite on the beach just east of Jordan River. It had the best of everything, and was exquisitely quiet and private. From the road's shoulder, a fifteen minute hike through a forest of giant ferns, moss covered trees and nurse logs will get you to a beach covered with multi-coloured smooth stones, patches of sand, driftwood galore and a view of the Olympic Mountains. I could get there and have my camp set up in less than... read more
Fri, September 21, 2007 - 2:40 PM permalink - 7 comments
 
Thirty years later and several thousand kilometers from its point of origin, Tara has found its way to me.

Back then, it was presented to my father by the Nepali foreign minister, on the stairs to the plane he was catching. Dad accepted graciously, a little bewildered and wondering if he had instantly exceeded his carry-on allowance.

I spent three incredible years off and on in New Delhi, where all of my values and beliefs were dumped out of the bag for me to sort through again. I dis... read more
Thu, September 6, 2007 - 4:21 PM permalink - 5 comments
 
The months are clicking by and All That Jazz. Now I've broken my previous record and am 8 months smoke free, thanks to laser therapy, which has an 85% success rate after one year, as opposed to the 32% success rate of patches after one year. I've tried almost everything, except for Zyban...no surprise that the hardest addiction is the last one standing.

Back in 1980, Roy Scheider played choreographer Joe Gideon in the musical hallucination "All That Jazz" which won the Best Picture Oscar f... read more
Tue, April 17, 2007 - 5:36 PM permalink - 5 comments
 
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The Eyes Have Ears

Re: The Beginning of Racism (in The Somatic Experience) Hello old friend, nice to see you here.
While I was growing up I brought my dates home because my parents wanted to meet them; they would often invite them to stay for dinner and ask them about their lives with a warm curiosity. Then one day I br... read more
discussion post on Mon, April 21, 2008 - 11:37 PM
Death of a Campsite (blog entry) Fifteen years ago, a friend of mine in Sooke told me about a logging campsite on the beach just east of Jordan River. It had the best of everything, and was exquisitely quiet and private. From the road's shoulder, a fifteen minute hike through a... read more
blog entry posted Fri, September 21, 2007 - 2:40 PM permalink - 7 comments
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