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I watched the Return of the King the other evening. Nearly at the end Frodo reflects on his adventure and thinks/writes the following: "How do you pick up the threads of an old life. How do you get on when in your heart you begin to understand there is no going back. There is some…
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Just came back Yesterday evening from surveying a water project in a Lahu village. The existing piping doesn’t produce enough water anymore. In this particular village I did my first project nearly seven years ago. So we ventured into the mountains and worked our way through the jungle. I took the surveying instruments along, but…
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Even though I had my share of problems with my ibook lately (as I write this my ibook G4 is in repairs again) I like Mac computers. I don’t regret switching even though there is a learning curve. Once the switch is made some kind of symbiosis takes place. I our world of instant communication…
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Maybe I read to much, maybe I just get to much information. I just feel overwhelmed by what is happening out here in the world. Through the internet, newspaper and CNN/BBC I have access to the worlds disasters, war, genocide and latest starlet gossip. I mostly get the suffering and the stupidity of the human…
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I’m having a lazy morning. Luckily Lillian brought me coffee to bed and so I didn’t even have to get up. It is raining outside and the option of getting up was just not very appealing. It is cold today, at least for my own standards. I know in Switzerland they would laugh. But it…