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The Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival finishes today and it’s a good thing: I can’t take any more tears. Not from other people, they’re my own. I’m just …
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For five weeks as I studied Buddhist method and wisdom at Diamond Mountain, I’d been wondering about the 16” mirror ball hanging from the temple ceili…
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I love a heavy snowfall. Not just because of the beauty of a thick white blanket, but because all the normal social rules take a holiday. For once, pe…
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I just got out of the hot tub. And I’m writing from my room where someone painted clouds on the light blue walls, the carpet is a southwest geometrica…
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After 800 miles on the road, I arrived in Bowie (pronounced BOO’wee) to the sight of a man pissing in his front yard. I couldn’t help but look twice, …
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Hi Friends – It’s been two weeks here at Diamond Mountain University and high time I told you what’s going on. In short, nothing. Rather, emptiness. T…
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Some of my yoga friends have been hearing about Tibetan Heart Yoga and having experienced a bit of it at Diamond Mountain recently, I decided to come …
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FAIRBANKS, ALASKA - I saw my first friend from the top of the airport escalator. Rick was ostensibly waiting for his son to arrive from Anchorage, but…
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“Things are just different here,” Amy said. It’s become our refrain, repeated every time we find ourselves in what appears to be a familiar situation …
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The United States may be a melting pot, but with this new job of mine, I’ve found out that Sydney is an incredibly multicultural city. And it doesn’t …
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Four weeks into it and being a handyman in Sydney is taking me to amazing places. On week one, I was schmoozing with the guns of the Australia Rugby U…
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