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  • What is this strange bird?

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    Do you think this bird is some sort of vulture?    If you live in Canada or the USA and have a “front lawn,” how would you like to wake up in the morning and see one of these guys standing in your front yard?   One of the strangest looking birds that I’ve ever seen…

  • Wonder: What Was It Like In SE Asia in 1100 AD? Angkor Wat Ancient Heritage Site

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    We walk in the Cambodian sun with hundreds of other tourists to wonder and listen and to try to imagine what in must have been like in the year 1100 when this place was  at the height of its glory.   The guide tells us about one hundred thousand laborers and hundreds of elephants who toiled…

  • Sugar Palm Trees of Cambodia

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    When you travel in southern Cambodia in January or February you see long, skinny bamboo poles tied up on the tall trunks of a special palm tree that the people allow to grow disbursed in the rice fields. This is the sugar palm tree. Love0 Share Share Share Pin

  • Finding Water in a Dry Place: Witching/Divining

    Finding Water in a Dry Place: Witching/Divining

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    In eastern Sumba, Indonesia finding water for life can be an unimaginable challenge. A few weeks ago we met villagers whose daily struggle for water included a 3 mile walk and an incredible “rock climb.” To reach water in a sheer-cliff ravine they had to walk at least an hour and then descend about 100…

  • A Development Dynamo: Rahkmat—Changing the Hearts of People

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    A few weeks ago I met  Rahkmat on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia.   Sumba can be sad Sumba.  It was always a fragile island ecosystem, but now the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean currents have made the rains even more erratic than before.   Two years ago they had another of their recurring…

  • Wonder at What Once Was: The Old Big Pine Trees of Michigan

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    A few weeks ago we had a time of vacation at Burt Lake in the northern lower peninsula of Michigan. I love the water and the woods of Michigan and this was a good time for me. It was made all the better because our kids and two of our grand kids could share part…

  • Wonder: The Intelligence in Creation: Example, the Elephant

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    In Thailand I saw elephants who could paint. This morning I read an article in the BBC site (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18507515) that explained how one of the secrets behind the intelligence of elephants who can paint is that they have long pregnancies. That allows for the baby elephant’s brain to develop a lot and be able to…

  • Educating Girls In Northern Laos

    Educating Girls In Northern Laos

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    Reading opens up the gates to learning, to the internet, to health, to self-esteem, and even to a degree of power over our own destiny. Try to imagine your world without reading. Northern Laos still has lots of communities where there have never been any schools at all, for neither boys nor girls. And, then…

  • Wonder

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    Wonder, Worms, and Positive Hearth Deviance One of the great gifts I received for Christmas is the little book: The Raggamuffin Gospel, by Brennan Manning. The main point is that we’re all ragamuffins in need of God’s grace. But, he has lots of wonderful points along the way: wonder is one. Love0 Share Share Share…