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Weekly Photo Challenge: Winter
30 Dec 2011 8 Comments
in Blogging Challenge, meme, travel Tags: Asia, China, DailyPost, Flower, Photograph, postaday2011, postaweek2011, Rivertown, Shanghai region
On a chilly day in a Chinese Rivertown near Shanghai
New to The Daily Post? Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, you’re invited to get involved in our Weekly Photo Challenge to help you meet your blogging goals and give you another way to take part in Post a Day / Post a Week. Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.
Here’s how it works:
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog anytime before the following Friday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use a “postaday2011″ or “postaweek2011″ tag.
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Christmas
25 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in culture, Religion Tags: Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, Christ, Christianity, Christmas, God
God so loved us that for our sakes He, through whom time was made, was made in time; and He, older by eternity than the world itself, was younger in age than many of His servants in the world; He, who made man, was made man; He was given existence by a mother whom He brought into existence; He was carried in hands which He formed; He nursed at breasts which He filled; He cried like a babe in the manger in speechless infancy—this Word without which human eloquence is speechless. – Augustine
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24 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in blogthings Tags: Holiday
Your Holiday Spirit Comes From Movies and Music |
 You love everything to do with the holidays, and it’s likely that many of your favorite things are holiday related. You have favorite songs, stories, and movies from this time of year that make your heart melt. You prefer to make yourself happy whenever possible – because no one else is going to do it. During the holiday season, you will spend as much time as you like with your favorites! You celebrate your own way. |
23 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: literary, wisdom
“In difficult times, you should always carry something beautiful in mind.”
–Blaise Pascal
The Xinjiang Procedure | The Weekly Standard
23 Dec 2011 2 Comments
in expat life Tags: China, human rights
I teach at Xinjiang High School near Guangzhou. This article, The Xinjiang Procedure | The Weekly Standard, on organ harvesting was recommended by David Brooks in his Sidney Awards for 2011.
While one can’t escape the poor treatment and living conditions of the factory and construction workers as I live in the midst of that, this is an example of a more hidden injustice.
*N.B. The article gets the place wrong. It begins placing Xinjiang near Guangzhou and then talks about Northeast China. We’re in the Southeast. They must mean another Xinjiang. I asked them to check their facts.
Christmas in Seoul, 2011
22 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in expat life Tags: Christmas
Seoul's Cathedral, Christmas 2011
Poem of the Week
22 Dec 2011 1 Comment
in poetry
December
by Gary Johnson
A little girl is singing for the faithful to come ye
Joyful and triumphant, a song she loves,
And also the partridge in a pear tree
And the golden rings and the turtle doves.
In the dark streets, red lights and green and blue
Where the faithful live, some joyful, some troubled,
Enduring the cold and also the flu,
Taking the garbage out and keeping the sidewalk shoveled.
Not much triumph going on here—and yet
There is much we do not understand.
And my hopes and fears are met
In this small singer holding onto my hand.
Onward we go, faithfully, into the dark
And are there angels hovering overhead? Hark.
“December” by Gary Johnson.
From the Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor.
Is that the best they can do?
20 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: GOP, politics, primaries, Republicans
I haven’t gotten to watch any of the Republican debates. As a citizen, I think I should watch some, endure some. Yet, I have caught snippets on the news. Boy. Is this the best the GOP has to offer? How embarrassing.
I saw the last 30 seconds of Saturday’s debate. I’d completely forgotten Michelle Bachman existed. To have so many people running and no one worth watching . . .
smkelly8
