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The Terra Cotta Warriors Offer Safety Anew

I visited the Terra Cotta Warriors, 20 miles east of Xi’an. Funny, I felt a little safer in life. I felt the anticipation build up in my chest as we entered the two-football-field-sized arch-roofed museum building. This structure housed the … Continue reading

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AN ANCIENT CITY WITH MODERN CONNECTIONS

A little background history The May holiday 2005 was fast approaching and I had planned to holiday with 1 of my young and adventurous Chinese buddies but we still didn’t know where we would go – somewhere not too crowded, … Continue reading

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Hainan–A Great Place to Live

Life in a small village in South China is never dull. From the friendly smiles of people nowadays you pass in the street towards the plodding water buffalo harnessed to farm carts, there is an oxygen of lifestyle and a … Continue reading

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Go Ahead, Look Back

So many times in this life, sages, psychologists, counselors, spiritual guides, relationship experts, and well-meaning people will advise that it is not wholesome for broken-hearted people to live in the past. This tips often is given to friends, loved ones, … Continue reading

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Glimpses of Guizhou

I emerged in the train station in the grey early morning light. Apart in the usual crowd that usually hangs near to the majority of the larger stations, really little was moving in this dull half-light as I wandered along … Continue reading

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