Despite living in the Philippines for 10 years, my Tagalog is still pretty poor. Living in Baguio City, a very English-friendly city, does not help. Having a quadra-lingual wife also has allowed me to be slack in my language. However, a couple of phrases I learned quickly here: BAWAL UMIHI DITO BAWAL MAGTAPON DITO The …
Month: September 2014
Martha, the Second Self, and Wintergreen Moments
A couple of days ago our center here (Bukal Life Care) showed a video. It is "Healing the Shame that Binds You" a lecture by John Bradshaw done back in the mid-80s. Although I had seen it several times before, this time one thing struck me particularly. Bradshaw spoke of people who can't really enjoy …
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Problem With Debating
At the bottom of this article is a link on Online Debating. It points out that it is better to seek clarification (understanding) than persuasion. I like to think about 4 major types of conversation: The article points out that debate (or I listed as "apologetics/argument") has problems. Positively, it is likely to be better …
Redemption and Old Rundown Buildings, Part 2
In PART ONE, I spoke of restoration. But sometimes a building passes the point of no return (or of no repair). When I lived on Woodchuck Hill, we had an old barn. The silo was gone... one of the first memories I had was when my dad pulled over the silo when I was about …
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Redemption and Old Rundown Buildings, Part 1
I was raised up on a hill in the Allegheny foothills known as Woodchuck Hill. While in many parts of the world civilization/development is taking over land, here things have gone the opposite way as old farms disappeared, people moved to the cities or to where jobs were, and the forest took over. On the …
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