Revisiting – a brief travel diary

I am having a blast in Portland-Vancouver area actually getting to play tourist.  When I lived here going to school and training at the temple I didn’t really do too many tourist things, although I certainly saw many things. It is really special when you can re-visit with friends you have made from the past and newly made friends.  I always get a treat out of trying to get my friends together so that they can…

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VA Healthcare

Other than the GPS not knowing where this place is the morning is going good. So far the experience has been positive. I am impressed by the facility and the staff so far. I am not sure what I expected, perhaps not something as nice as this. Maybe I was expecting something on the order of a delapidated wooden building with antique equipment. My last experience with large scale government medicine was at Tripler Army…

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Micro-Lending

Yes, another post on Micro-Lending.  This one is merely an update.  Of the six loans I have made four have completely repaid their loans.  Today I was able to re-loan some of my repaid funds to a clothing vendor in Azerbaijan. I loan through Kiva.org and if anyone wants to join our temple’s team just search for Myosho-ji and sign up.  There are lots of folks all over the world who, with the aid of…

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Charlotte Gay Pride – 2009

What a weekend just wrapped up.  There are hundreds of positive words that could be used to describe the events of Pride here in Charlotte this year.  Joy and Happiness are two that come to mind most immediately.  Yes success, victory, wonderful and so forth could also be used, however, I think joy is the one I like the best. There was so much joy this past weekend.  Folks were out and OUT being themselves…

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