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A simple blog about life in our small garden temple in the Philippines. Here you will find the joys, trials, and tribulation that belie the myth that the simplified life is a life without problems.
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Don't ask an LLM how to brew a perfect pot of tea
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Vignettes: A moment in time
I think of myself as Old School. Today I found out just how Old School I truly am. I'm not quite sure why but I decided to see if I was making my tea properly.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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To trade my brain for a little less pain is not a good idea
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Vignettes: A moment in time
Two nights ago, I had some serious tremors and spasms going on so I took my heavy-duty Med to calm my body so that I could sleep.
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December 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Honesty and integrity amongst the rich and powerful is rare which is why I salute the owner of the SUV
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Vignettes: A moment in time
The day started off magnificently. I woke up feeling good. My weight was down to 176 and my blood sugar had declined to 87. I felt good, I was healthy and, I was doing well emotionally.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Does president trump or the Pope have more gold in their office?
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Vignettes: A moment in time
75298434_903.jpgThe Pope tried to shame the world in his sermon as he told all of us that ignoring the poor to be with the rich and powerful was the same as ignoring God. And then he said:
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December 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Does president trump or the Pope have more gold in their office?
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Vignettes: A moment in time
75298434_903.jpgThe Pope tried to shame the world in his sermon as he told all of us that ignoring the poor to be with the rich and powerful was the same as ignoring God. And then he said:
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December 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Democracies only work when the people are involved and the people are well educated when there are only sheeple democracy is a failure
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Vignettes: A moment in time
A popular western myth is that democracy is the greatest ever form of government. Like all myths this one has a grain or two of truth in it. But the simple fact, proven by the American 'Great Experime
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December 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Trump's ego and ignorance are both apparently limitless
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Vignettes: A moment in time
Not only has Agent Orange decided to reinvent the Monroe Doctrine he has apparently decided to ignore other historic lessons and bring back battleships.
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December 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Christmas has passed me by
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Beyond The Paling: Simply put Christmas has passed me by this year
For the last decade or so I have had a very dark Christmas in my mind. The slaughter of the innocents, a young unwed mother, the pain that Joseph must have gone through, these were the thoughts that
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December 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Time to find my won't power
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Beyond The Paling: Where oh where, have I placed my won't power
I am at an age where hours, minutes, days, weeks, even months mean less and less to me. Which is my way of pointing out that I'm not quite sure when and where I lost my won't power.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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A hard lesson that makes sense in the real world
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Beyond The Paling: This is a hard teaching that makes a great deal of sense in the real world
For to all those who have, more will be given; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away. (Luke 19:26, NRSVUE)
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December 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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If this is not the devil's domain how do you explain the evil that just happened on an Australian beach?
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Beyond The Paling: This Is The Devil's Domain
In their case the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. (2 Corinthians 4:4, god of
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December 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I never would have guessed that my most popular video of 2025 was one that my wife shot.
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Beyond The Paling: M'Lady shoots better video than I do
Less than a month ago when I was feeding the fish, the geese, and the turtles in the lower pond I saw an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny baby Box turtle sitting on the drainpipe of the lower pond.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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It's always a question, will the water monitor lizard get to the goose eggs before we do?
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Beyond The Paling: Goose eggs or politics?
And the answer is; goose eggs! This morning as well as finding 1 turtle sunning himself or herself on the sunning rock there was an old Dame in the new nest. When Rusty our Doberman went over to see
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December 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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A new personal best I spotted 5 turtles on the sunning rock!
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Beyond The Paling: Every day a surprise
Part of my daily routine is to wander down to the lower pond and from a well camouflaged vantage point, see if there are any turtles sunning themselves. It has to be well camouflaged because turtles
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December 10, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Kindness
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Beyond The Paling: Kindness
"Always try to be a little kinder than necessary." (Barrie 1911, Peter and Wendy, 237)
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December 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Our genset has developed a nasty and dark sense of humor.
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Beyond The Paling: Our genset has developed a sense of humor
We bought our genset after super typhoon Odette left us without power for more than thirty days. It has always been just a shade cantankerous. But today it set a new standard in dark humor.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Trump's racist agenda has finally come into full blossom.
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Beyond The Paling: Trump's Agenda Is: Racial Purity
"A formal National Security Strategy is typically released by presidents once each term. It can form a framework for future policies and budgets, as well as signalling to the world where the president
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December 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The typhoon moved quicker than anybody thought and now the crew is stuck on another island unable to get home for an untold number of days to come
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Beyond The Paling: Stranded
It was a simple plan; one day's travel each way two days' work with the people that were suffering. But as someone once said the plan only works until the first punch is thrown.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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The greater church through their imagery teaches that white is right. Which is one reason why so many Christians follow Trump.
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Beyond The Paling: Trump has many Christian followers because he proclaims what they were taught in Sunday school
From the Americas to Zululand the missionaries brought their understanding of Christianity to the world. Jesus was a white European with long hair and a beard. Just take a look at the following image
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December 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The Monroe Doctrine meets the mad emperor
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Beyond The Paling: spheres of influence and a redefined manifest destiny guarantee death and destruction
Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez even though he was convicted of drug trafficking, sentenced to 45 years in prison, and fined if my sources are correct, $8 million. It's
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December 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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I enjoy being support staff
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Beyond The Paling: Vengeance be bad ~ offering support be good
Over the years I have developed a passion for being 'support staff.' This morning M'Lady is once again traveling to where her expertise is needed. I should mention that she's not traveling alone, she
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December 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Sources as diverse Shakespeare, the Koran, the Christian Bible, the Tanakh, and Buddhism all teach the same wisdom, vengeance is a bad idea!
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Beyond The Paling: Vengeance is a bad idea.
"Family of Imran (3:133)
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November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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It's true that there's nothing new under the sun but still and all everything does change. The trick to a good old age is to find positive ways to make these changes become changes for the good.
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Beyond The Paling: There truly is nothing new under the sun but still and all things do change
The trick is to find positive ways to help the changes that we all go through become changes for good rather than bad. Case in point; today I have changed my big old computer keyboard for the small ke
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November 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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I have begun to study the Koran. It's full of pleasant surprises
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Beyond The Paling: The Same G-d
The Cow (2:139)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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If you're living an imitation you're not living
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Beyond The Paling: some things can't be imitated
"Upon my word, Caroline, I should think it more possible to get Pemberley by purchase than by imitation." (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 8)
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November 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM