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Rumour has it that Great Britain has experienced a true summer this last July. This “heatwave” has health professionals worried, while other Britons head to the beach to bask. Of course, it isn’t usually so. Last July, when we visited Brighton Beach for two days, the weather – rain and black clouds with intermittent sunshine – was probably more typical […]

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The Wild West is a place of legends and stories… Few are more moving than that of Sacagawea (Bird Woman), the Lemhi Shoshone woman, kidnapped in 1800 by a raiding party of Hidatsa when she was about 12, and a year later, given or sold, along with another young captive Shoshone girl, to Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian trapper. Thirty-four year old Charbonneau was […]

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Enlightenment doesn’t happen overnight. Neither, apparently, does building a temple. I don’t know how long they have been working on the new wihan (พระวิหาร), or shrine hall, at Wat Ratchathammaram (วัดราชธรรมาราม) in Maret on the southeast side of Koh Samui, but we’ve been driving past on the way to or from somewhere for several of our visits […]

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One of the many things I love about being in Asia, is people’s willingness to be photographed. Personally, I don’t like having my picture taken. If I’m in the sights of a lens rather than looking through a viewfinder, I get tense and awkward – which results in a bad photograph; only proving, through a […]

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“Bloom where you are planted.” Arbore Girl, Omo Valley, Ethiopia Greeting Cards with Envelopes : Inside blank Packs of 10 (7.25″x4.75″) for $50.         Performing the Ganga Aarti Dasaswamedh Ghat, Varanasi, India Greeting Cards with Envelopes : Inside Blank Packs of 10 (7.25″x4.75″) for $50.          Novice with a Light  Shwe Yan […]

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