new journal finds serious working life
in the pictures: a few of the animals in our family. Ina the pig, Foster the dog, who always seems to get into fights--a very bloody eye and torn pieces of ear. the dogs are not treated here very well, but I love animals.
And one of our 3 cats.
1/16
A new journal starts now…#6 in the sequence…included in the awesome care package from my mom.
It so amazes me how a product can come from anywhere—some toothbrushes my mom sent me—made in Germany and USA, Distributed by OH. In samoa I see the power of the world economy—things coming from China, Indonesia, USA (lots of tools at the hardware store).
Samoa is researching the best ways to extract ethonal from breadfruit (a lot of it goes to waste on the ground)—more fuel is good with seven new cars on the island every day. (that really seems impossible to me!)
Samoans don’t show kids respect—Jesus bends down to the child, leper, prostitute (I wonder what Bible verses these are). If Samoans really want to follow Jesus, this is the way, but also opposite of the Samoan culture. There are clashes. I guess sometimes the culture just gets to me.
Some pieces of random phrasing…I saw on TV I think.
“how to give meaning to life”
“slightest change in our minds”
“experience is indeed the path”
So we come to the end of the first book I picked out of the PC library (In Search of Nomads). Wow, other people have read 8,9,10…15 books already. I must read slow a note on freedom:
“And another thing they [nomads] all had in common was that they set a premium on freedom: freedom of movement, freedom from authority, freedom from the habitual anxieties of urban living, freedom from the constraints of organized agriculture, freedom from any convention but their own.”
Some words I’d like to throw into Google(with the quotes):
“serious working life”
“experience the sensation”
“interfering do gooder” (this is how I feel sometimes in Samoa—why can’t we just leave them alone and let them do their thing?),
“follow knowledge like a sinking star”
“Isabel Burton journal”
“brand that marks the nomad”
“peculiar blend of head strong determination”
“among genuine nomads”
poem: The land by Vita SackvilleWest;
Poem: The Collar by George Herbert
Book: Grass by Merian Cooper (also a movie)
“Qashqai sayings” and proverbs
“Bakhtiari sayings” and proverbs
But the Google is not everything, only as good as people are at writing it down, typing it up, and creating a web page. Fa’asamoa, I don’t think this happens very much. Samoan culture is oral. People have to slow down to read, and even more so to write. I think that’s also why Samoan children have trouble reading and writing the Samoan language. In the global economy these skills and way of thinking will be valuable.
A new journal starts now…#6 in the sequence…included in the awesome care package from my mom.
It so amazes me how a product can come from anywhere—some toothbrushes my mom sent me—made in Germany and USA, Distributed by OH. In samoa I see the power of the world economy—things coming from China, Indonesia, USA (lots of tools at the hardware store).
Samoa is researching the best ways to extract ethonal from breadfruit (a lot of it goes to waste on the ground)—more fuel is good with seven new cars on the island every day. (that really seems impossible to me!)
Samoans don’t show kids respect—Jesus bends down to the child, leper, prostitute (I wonder what Bible verses these are). If Samoans really want to follow Jesus, this is the way, but also opposite of the Samoan culture. There are clashes. I guess sometimes the culture just gets to me.
Some pieces of random phrasing…I saw on TV I think.
“how to give meaning to life”
“slightest change in our minds”
“experience is indeed the path”
So we come to the end of the first book I picked out of the PC library (In Search of Nomads). Wow, other people have read 8,9,10…15 books already. I must read slow a note on freedom:
“And another thing they [nomads] all had in common was that they set a premium on freedom: freedom of movement, freedom from authority, freedom from the habitual anxieties of urban living, freedom from the constraints of organized agriculture, freedom from any convention but their own.”
Some words I’d like to throw into Google(with the quotes):
“serious working life”
“experience the sensation”
“interfering do gooder” (this is how I feel sometimes in Samoa—why can’t we just leave them alone and let them do their thing?),
“follow knowledge like a sinking star”
“Isabel Burton journal”
“brand that marks the nomad”
“peculiar blend of head strong determination”
“among genuine nomads”
poem: The land by Vita SackvilleWest;
Poem: The Collar by George Herbert
Book: Grass by Merian Cooper (also a movie)
“Qashqai sayings” and proverbs
“Bakhtiari sayings” and proverbs
But the Google is not everything, only as good as people are at writing it down, typing it up, and creating a web page. Fa’asamoa, I don’t think this happens very much. Samoan culture is oral. People have to slow down to read, and even more so to write. I think that’s also why Samoan children have trouble reading and writing the Samoan language. In the global economy these skills and way of thinking will be valuable.
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