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Mapping the limits of the soul: every school a symphony, every diver has a halo
AKA meeting King Neptune. There are times when I feel that I have overstated things with the title of this series. Then I think through how much I have seen and grown in this past month. And I ponder...
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Mapping the limits of the soul: southern hemisphere home as a shellback!!
S 08 49.480′ W 172 43.133′ O Southern Cross, O clover of phosphorus! – Pablo Neruda Sounds so pretty!! What does it mean?? It means I am home to my beloved Southern Hemisphere!! The past few days have...
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Mapping the limits of the soul: how do you map something when you don’t know...
I guess a lyrical name to this would have been the John Lennon line ‘How do I go forward when I don’t know which way I am facing’, but it doesn’t really cover it anyways. And we all know my...
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Mapping the limits of the soul: return from the wild
S 14 20.969′ W 170 38.367′ Today we came into sight of land. Real land, with mountains and roads and things like that. It was really pretty, sitting there with its jagged mountains low on the horizon...
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Mapping the limits of the soul: the Samoas pt 1
Damn! So much has happened in the past week since I last had the time, awakeness or innertubes to write!! Even now, I write through a thick veil of bedlust! It is 10pm, and I just finished processing...
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Mapping the limits of the soul: the Samoas pt 2
We left off with me getting off the bus near the Vaisala Hotel, having been cast as a fa’afafine. I can’t say that my reception at the hotel was overwhelmingly positive. The lady at the desk seemed a...
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mapping the limits of the soul: the Samoas pt 3
Let’s skip to this afternoon. Tutuila in the sunset, with rain falling upon her, her peaks marching backward into shadow, golden light playing on the waves. Come with me, I shall show you a land where...
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Mapping the limits of the soul: Tutuila
S 14 23.274′ W 170 34.764′ Before we set out to circumnavigate the main island of American Samoa, Tutuila, I had thought it would be something of a disappointment. I thought I had seen a lot of the...
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I really like this song!
It ain’t the same without the equatorial post-production tinkles, but I really like this song!!
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Top five regrets (First World people) had when dying
I saw a cool article from the Guardian today on facebook. It is a list of the top five things people express regretting about their lives when on their deathbeds (or close to), compiled by a nurse...
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