October 31, 2008
I have begun reading A More Excellent Way: Be In Health / Pathways of Wholeness /Spiritual Roots of Disease. I believe that this book and a series of Sunday seminars will help me to address the spiritual causes of ailments then eliminate them. Spiritual healing is “A More Excellent Way” I’ve read to page 100, to ‘Teaching Unit Four.’
October 30, 2008
When I began to feel better after a week of sickness, not wanting to read anything and not having my computer intact for reading the internet, I picked up a paperback book that I’d bought months ago: Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides. I read it for two nights. It was fantastic. The back cover and inside leaves are loaded with snippets from favorable reviews - glowing praise from many sources. Dominic and I had seen, via DVD, The Great Raid, a movie based on this book and another. more →
October 23, 2008
Yesterday Mack and I went to a new member briefing at Benguet Electrical Cooperative as a prelude for getting a new BENECO membership and an electrical connection to the shack that his family resides in. Afterward, I had a horrible headache, as if I’d been shot in the head. So we went to a pharmacy, and I bought ibuprofen. One has to take ibuprofen with food or milk, so we took tea and a snack in Vizco’s restaurant beside Session Road. more →
October 21, 2008
Chariss and Toni Rose have been ’sick as a dog’ for days (while I was in Sagada). Six-year-old Toni Rose had chicken pox weeks ago, and missed a week of Kindergarten. Then her eight-year old sister contracted chicken pox. I would have thought that it’d run its course and that they’d be well, but Charisse’s immune system was weakened, I suppose, and she got influenza then passed that to Toni Rose. They’ve both been miserable, and I hadn’t known. more →
October 20, 2008
Dominic and I returned from another brief sojourn to Sagada in Mountain Province on Sunday night so that Dominic could begin working on his computer for a new client in the U.S.A. My computer’s hard drive has been mailed to Xyon in Quezon City. So while I’m dependent on lousy internet cafes in Baguio City to access the internet, I’m disinclined to write about sunny Sagada. I had a wonderful time, and I could write so much, but I just hate using a grungy keyboard with many letters rubbed-off the keys and horrible, old monitor under fluorescent light in “Got Hub?” in the Porta Vaga building. Maybe later. more →
October 15, 2008
My forehead got sunburned last week and this week while walking miles on the streets of Baguio City and La Trinidad with my friend Mack, The Jeepney magazine staffers, missionaries from U.S.A. and Pastor Roberto. Mack has been very helpful in talking with poor people on the sidewalks, overpasses and parks of Baguio City, as he speaks Tagalog and Ilocano, and I don’t. more →
October 12, 2008
Always back up your computer’s primary hard drive- whatever data you’re creating then storing hour-to-hour and day-to-day. I didn’t have everything backed-up to a secondary hard drive when my primary drive was killed. Oh, my gosh.
I had backed-up my complete music library and all photos except those made in the last two weeks. But I lost so many applications that I hadn’t saved to DVD or external hard drive, 100-200 fonts, my virtual address book, hundreds of Firefox bookmarks and much more. So I no longer have everyone’s addresses.
October 7, 2008
I’ve found that many web surfers find this weblog when they search for “beggar,” “poor in the philippines,” “pictures of poverty in baguio city,” “photos of poor weary burdened,” “poor kids photos,” “poor beggar,” “baguio poverty,” “reaching the poor,” “begger” (sic), “beggar kids,” “jamaica pictures of poverty,” “pictures of poor people,” “philippines’ beggar,” “poor and reach people,” “the poor” and such terms in Google and Yahoo search engines.
October 1, 2008
Tropical Storm Higos (”Pablo”) has been marching across the Philippines for two days, and we are getting beaucoup rain in Luzon! Ramadan ended today, so all Republic of the Philippines government employees were excused from work, and classes were suspended in public schools. I’d bet that schools will be ‘closed’ tomorrow due to flooding and risks of mudslides, rockslides and drownings. more →
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