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            <title> Spring Buddha and the Dogwood Tree  </title>
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On this particular rainy Spring Sunday, staring at the dogwood tree and the Buddha outside of my living room, for a moment or two, I can feel the calmness of Mother Nature. 

The beauty of the bright, wet dogwood flowers and Buddha’s salutation to nature mesmerizes me.  Somehow, time has frozen!  

I can hear the dove’s cry calling for... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 15 May 2011 21:22:38 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Claim Your Destiny  </title>
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   "People often meet their destiny on the road they take to avoid it!"     
      - French Proverb

As the world as we know it continues to challenge us beyond our limits, I can’t help but question everything - the meaning of life, Mother Nature, God, the viability of our very existence…

I guess it is easy to ponder these thoughts on a... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:53:43 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Freedom Within </title>
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On life’s journey we all search for freedom…freedom from poverty, freedom from lust, freedom from fear, freedom from sorrow, freedom from oppression, freedom from illness, freedom from our responsibilities, freedom from our own limitations….

On the dusty road of life’s dream and reality, where things are rarely vivid, do we ever feel... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:02:23 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Life in the Balance </title>
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This particular Memorial Day weekend, far away from home, I found myself standing next to my comatose mother in a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh struggling for her life.  

It is in the overcrowded and struggling streets of Dhaka, where she taught me to deal with life’s adversity as she took me to school every day riding on rickshaws.  “Look... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:55:38 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Life’s Detour and the Art of Zen </title>
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   “Courage is the quality most essential to understand the language of the world.”    

								- Paulo Coelho

It was a cold brisk Friday in Copenhagen.  I decided to take a little detour…to visit a dear old friend in the Swedish village of Lagan…

I met her some twenty plus years ago in Minnesota in the midst of another winter.  Twenty... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:31:40 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> ‘A Lesson Well Worth Savoring’ </title>
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After a long week, on Friday night I was laying down in bed with my eyes closed.  As my wife does quite often, at one point she started reading out loud an article from this week’s Newsweek magazine.   For nearly twenty years, she has always managed to find exactly the right inspiration for me whenever I run out of fuel. 

This particular... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:15:13 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Corridors of Carbondale </title>
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   ‘Hey, don’t let anyone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me, alright?  You got a dream, you got to protect it!  People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you can’t do it.  You want something, go get it.  Period!’    

                - From the movie    Pursuit of Happyness    

Twenty-three years ago, it was... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:30:44 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> A Night At The Hakuba Village </title>
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   My Dear Little Angel    , 

A couple of months ago, while watching    Star Wars     together for the very first time, you asked me – “Baba, how do you know who is good and who is evil?”.    

Since then, I have been pondering your simple question...
 While gazing upon Camelback Mountain in Arizona, while traveling through the French... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:00:58 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Paulo Coelho’s Prayer </title>
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Last night, once again I was reading ‘   Like the Flowing River    ’ by Paulo Coelho.  It is a collection of the author’s reflections and short stories, written from 1998 to 2005.  The jacket of the book describes ‘These are the powerful tales of living and dying, of destiny and choices, of love lost and found.  It explores what it means... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:41:51 -0500 </pubDate>
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            <title> Living With Courage </title>
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I was merely a child in March, 1971.  It was a year when more than three million people were killed in my birthland Bangladesh at the hands of the Pakistani army.  

As the website                                                                 genocidebangladesh.org     puts it: 

“The mass killings in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1971... ]]></description>
            <pubDate> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:24 -0500 </pubDate>
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