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• DAILY PHOTO: Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi

  

  Taken in October of 2013 in Delhi Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Soviet Monument, Szabadság Tér

  

  Taken in December of 2016 in Budapest. Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Myths of the Mind

  

  I wrote a post a while back about six persistent brain myths that has some overlapping relevance to this one. 5.) A person is a unitary actor (the spherical... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Octavio Paz / Selected Poems Ed. by Charles Tomlinson

  

  Selected Poems by Octavio Paz My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page Octavio Paz was a Mexican author, poet, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Descartes’ Error by Antonio Damasio

  

  Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by António R. Damásio My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page I’ve joked that there must be a law... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Solitary Zebra

  

  Taken in May of 2018 near Lusaka, Zambia. Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Kathmandu

  

  tight warren of streets, alleys, and stupa-laden courtyards — a junky’s labyrinth low portals force a bow to the ever-watching Buddha how’s someone, hot-wired... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Asian Elephants, Sri Lanka

  

  Taken in Kegalle, Sri Lanka (near Kandy) in May of 2015 Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Patan’s Durbar Square

  

  Taken on May 4, 2018 in Patan (Lalitpur.) Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Find the Fishtail

  

  Taken in April of 2018 in Nepal. Remarkable how well mountains can blend with cloud and sky. Machapuchre (“Fishtail”) Mountain becomes almost invisible. Share o... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Terraces

  

  Taken in April of 2018 near Chomrong, Nepal Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Works of Nonfiction That May Be [at Least in Part] Fiction

  

  NOTE: There are many famous examples of books presented as nonfiction that turned out to be partially or completely fabricated (e.g. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Stupa Field, Swayambhunath

  

  Taken in April of 2018 in Kathmandu Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Purple Flower

  

  Taken in Bhaktapur, Nepal on May 3, 2018 Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay

  

  Mad Country by Samrat Upadhyay My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page I’ve recently started reading at least one work of literature from each country I visit, and ... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Bring Me the Rhinoceros by John Tarrant

  

  Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life by John Tarrant My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This book is an examination of... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

  

  Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This novel intersperses two story lines, the connection... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Around the World in 5 Works of Poetry

  

  5.) On Love and Barley by Matsuo Basho [Japanese]: One doesn’t get better haiku [and other traditional Japanese poetry forms] than Basho. 4. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Sunset Over Lake Phewa

  

  Taken in April of 2018 in Pokhara Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: South Annapurna Glacier Bed

  

  Taken in April of 2018 in the Annapurna Sanctuary Share on Facebook, Twitter, Email, etc.PrintWhatsAppMoreShare on TumblrTweetEmailLike this:Like Loading... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2018 SOCIETY, TRAVEL