Thursday, March 26, 2009

update

Northern Romania is beautiful. I am headed to Transylvania tomorrow. I updated my where-abouts on the right.

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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Notes from Ukraine, revisited

These are very old notes, but I have run out of time before my train to modify them. I will try to get back to them next week. By the way, I am less of a Dad now, and more of a teacher and disciplinarian. We also hope to get the second issue for this year of our boys run paper out this week. And something to think about for all you avid readers (thanks for hanging around) What makes an adult? This thought has come up with other care takers and even some of the older boys recently, and I think I am starting to refine my opinion. It seems to be a much harder question than I once thought.

Have fun, all of you,

later:
Meeting Ivan, Natalia, and Oksana on the street in Drohobych
Tossing hay sounds like sea waves
Club notes:Discussion on good and bad; jokes; altruism; Do most relationships form on mutual giving or do they expect to get something from it; ethics were originally the laws of culture that made society feasible but today the rules are easier and personal/ religious ethics should be separate from law; therefore ethics are no longer necessary to preserve society (gay "marriage"); therefore why we are secularizing (revelation? Put in America about revelation to interacting with strangers; that's new to society-strangers were bad)

Any one know of good plastic bottle art, like pinwheels and bird feeders?

Revisited
comparing Ukraine and (south carolina) and Austria, it is amazing how and how fast agr is modernizing.

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