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China

The colour of home

January 24, 2007

After a long trip away, how does one reconnect with home? After speaking in broken sentences for weeks in a foreign language barely understood, where does one relocate the language common to one’s self of well being? Tongues in trees as Shakespeare said? I ask these questions because it has been just over two weeks [...]

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Back from China

January 18, 2007

I’ve been back for over a week now from China and have found the process of settling back into a “normal” routine is taking longer than expected. For sure, I am more than happy to be back on home soil and tending to the Peace Fire and such, but like the photo above, a partial [...]

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Last Climb

January 8, 2007

A fitting ending to my month long stay in China was to climb Tai Shan (Peaceful Mountain); the most climbed mountain in China and the most revered of its five sacred mountains. Getting to the base of the mountain for the start of the climb provided the usual minor hassles – taxi to bus station, [...]

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New Year’s Weekend

January 3, 2007

Winter came briefly to Jinan this past Saturday. Exciting, but at the same time a bit of bother as this was supposed to be the day Sally and I were going to the town of Qufu, the birthplace of Confucius. After sitting in snarled traffic for nearly an hour and only getting half way to [...]

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Christmas travels

December 28, 2006

Looking somewhat like a Muslim is how Sally presented herself to the world on Christmas Day. Nothing religious in intention; just what one has to do to keep healthy in air that knocks most Westerners about. Air, that makes for great sunsets and sunrises. Big red sun filtering through the smog is always dramatic. Makes [...]

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Red and Gold

December 19, 2006

Looking out of the hotel window here in Jinan (a relatively small city by Chinese standards of 5 million where Sally is studying Chinese Medicine at a TCM hospital) the haze and numerous undistinguished buildings make it not unlike any other polluted global city. However, what I am finding out is that the city’s visual [...]

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China start

December 13, 2006

I can’t say that it has been an easy/healthy start into living in China for a month. Just getting to Hobart’s airport for my flight out last Wednesday saw the car’s radiator hose blow up with a huge pressurized “bang” that sent clouds of steam into the passenger compartment fogging up the windows. Luckily, being [...]

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China

December 5, 2006

All this past week and even earlier I have been walking the property saying good-bye to all the little people that live here. For I am leaving Windgrove. Tomorrow. My first trip out of Australia in six and a half years. To be honest, despite the hugh joy and real excitement in my heart at [...]

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