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Thursday, 28 March 2013

  • Studying Meditation

    I'm reading a book by a Tibetan monk, Sogyal Rinpoche, called "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying."  It's quite good-humored and interesting.  He says that Westerners often ask him how long they should meditate, 20 minutes morning and night, or is it okay to do shorter times throughout the day.  [like taking medicine, I guess]  He says that there is no prescription in any Eastern teachings that he has studied.  Apparently, this is "Meditation Western Standard Time!"  {I laughed out loud when I saw that!}

     [Sidebar:  I'm in a PC cafe, and have concluded that video games, when played with others, help develop foresight in teenagers.  The fellows here discuss strategy a lot.]

    I'll add more to this post later.

Sunday, 06 January 2013

Saturday, 04 August 2012

  • Some Photos from my trip to the US.

     

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    Grand Canyon, 2012 June 30, late afternoon...there are 2 California Condors out there somewhere!  One of them soared within 50 feet of me.  That's one BIG Bird!

     

     

    2012 Cathedral Rocks, Oak Creek, AZ.

    Oak Creek, Arizona, with Cathedral Rocks in the background. I soaked my feet in the creek,- it was very cooling. Got that spiffy straw hat in Sedona.

     

     

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    My new daughter-in-law and I, just after the wedding on July 7, 2012 in East Sandwich, Mass.

     

     

    Cait-jim-and-his-family

    The bridal couple and his family

     

Monday, 11 June 2012

  • Upcoming excitement

    I will be flying to my son's wedding on Cape Cod soon.   Friends and family members are coming in from all over the globe; it should be quite a gathering!  I'll tell you all about it and try to upload some photos later on.  I'm planning on visiting folks from California to Maine, for nearly 4 weeks, this summer.  I'll have 2 of my students "catsitting" here at my apartment while I'm gone.  Needless to say, I'm awfully busy getting ready, so this is just a short note.

    Lots of Love to all from Korea,  ~ Sillama

Wednesday, 04 April 2012

  • New Soup

    Just tried an experiment I found to be quite tasty.

    Heated 2 cups of pumpkin soup just to the boil, stirred in a tablespoon of peanut butter and 3 handfuls of puffed wheat.  My gosh, it was good!  Nutritious, too, as it has balanced protein, lots of different vitamins and plenty of both soft and "hard" fiber.

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  • retired teacher, as well as a food co-op worker, wholesale food supplier, medical-educator and counselor. Enjoying life in Asia. <a href="http://www.care2.com/send/categories"> Save the Rainforest! Send an eCard from Care2.com!</a> </p><br> <p> other websites: </p><br> <p><br> http://www.opendiary.com/sillama (most recent, mirror site)</p> <p> http://www.geocities.com/sillama.geo (photos of Corea) (my first website!)</p> <p> http://sillama1.diaryland.com (earlier entries on Korea)</p>

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  • soofman2
    hello sillama :) U lead me to most interesting places:) It will take me some time to figure this place out but I may learn how to start a diary one day.
  • thehumblefarmer
    You’re so right! I’m a Mainer in Exile, working in Korea ’cause I couldn’t find work in Maine. I came to your journal by way of Rose and Trout on Facebook. Bernard is familiar, as I lived on Swan’s Island for 4 years, and used the ferry to Bass Harbor regularly. Also used to hang out with Robert Sko
  • lyn1937
    @sillama1 - A real year of the bible would knock all the pompous religeonists on the right wing on their collective butts. Government should never be involved in religeon at any level. I don't undestand people who quote the bible to prove a point. An opposing idea can always be found somewhere else
    • Posted 9/11/2009 6:52 AM
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  • Sojourner_here
    Hi Sillama! "Year of the Bible" sounds good. Several years ago I got a One Year Catholic Bible. Daily it has OT, NT, Psalms, Proverbs and in the back, the Deutrocanonical Books. By the end of the year, I have read the complete bible. With that I read a daily meditation from WWJD and I end with a dai
  • sillama1
    Interesting article on the campaign to declare a national "Year of The Bible" to improve people's understanding of what the Good Book really says! http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/18/america-s-real-literacy-crisis-it-s-the-bible-stupid/
  • sillama1
    For those of you who don't read Ronnie at "Time goes by" I nabbed this cute commercial http://www.culturepub.fr/videos/rubber-cement-colle-les-nonnes.html
  • sillama1
    http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2009/04/09/tweeting-cat-door-alerts-the-media/ check this out. The comments below the article are very interesting, too. There are several versions of this video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXx4vXFESek This is the ICANHASCHEEZBURGER version, lol.
  • sillama1
    The fundies are going to go bat-guano about that Newsweek article, "Post-Christian America." My Pentecostal relatives are sure that there is a massive conspiracy by the left-wing, Godless pinkos to crush all the 'good Christians.' I keep telling them that they have nothing to worry about if they are
  • mrsgrovine
    THANKS FOR ADDING ME AS A FRIEND.
  • sillama1
    @Desert_Eagle_AE - That's a great way to say it! It's spreading, you know. My daughter just cut her hair short, too. She LOVES how easy it is to style and dry!