Monthly Archives: March 2025

South From Tibet 1995

March 13, 2025 – 8:22 pm

In early November 1995 I had hitched a ride from Shitgatze, Tibet south on my way to the Nepali border after spending a month in Lhasa. After a few hours on the Friendship Highway I was dropped at the t-intersection of two dirt roads; National Highways 318 and 219. The van disappeared west and I […]

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Laying On A Suburban Lawn – New England

March 12, 2025 – 12:05 pm

Noon West of Boston and 128 Mid-March Noon Lying on my sister Pam’s sloping lawn Under the Winter sun The grass awaiting the Spring to green__ Beyond the lawn A steep descent into a gully An Eastern pine rises from below My eyeball estimate Over a hundred feet in the air Over two hundred years […]

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America: The Grim Truth / Late Breaking News 2010

March 12, 2025 – 7:28 am

Posted in Truth http://en.wordpress.com/tag/truth by lancefreeman76 on April 5, 2010 Americans, I have some bad news for you: You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of […]

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A Bus To Boston

March 10, 2025 – 7:11 pm

March 9 Daylights Saving ends Two weeks short of the equinox Yesterday sunrise at 6 Today 7 The Flex Bus departure at 8 Pack my bag go taxi__ 7:41 The Bowery and Canal The old Fung Wah stop Departure on time Cross the East River I know this route well Chinatown to Chinatown 1962 to […]

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The Sacrifice of Lent 2009

March 5, 2025 – 1:50 pm

Lent is the six-week period of Catholic fasting from Ash Wednesday to Easter, allowing the faithful the chance to atone for the previous year’s sins by mirroring the span of time the Messiah spend in the desert before He succumbed to the temptations not of Satan, but his own mortal flesh. While I’m a full-blown […]

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