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What’s wrong with him? What’s with that slight cacophony in the way he moves nowadays? Every day, he senses a lovey-dovey cadence of delight he only felt in the comfort of a swing in the backyard back home. He is the composed gentleman. He is acutely aware that he is,…
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Portions of the vast fields patterned with black cows, patches of waterholes every now and then, rugged terrains devoid of vertical objects except for the catenary power cables that line the sideways of the highway – the Nebraska terrain is a graphic description of what deprivation of structural development is…
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This is just a set of photos I took while driving through Colorado’s I-70 on my way to Utah. Yeah, the Eisenhower Tunnel! It is a four-lane vehicular tunnel that is approximately 50 mi (80 km) long. The tunnel is the longest mountain tunnel and highest point on the Interstate…
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If you want to be near three country borders, travel to Maastricht in The Netherlands. Maastricht is the capital of Netherlands’s southernmost region, Limburg. It is close to the border of Belgium on its west and just a few miles to the east is Germany. What are the best places…
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When I visited Luxembourg for the first time, I immediately looked for the Luxembourg Cathedral. Located near the old town market and fashion street, the 1613 structure is the only Cathedral in the tiny country. It may not be as huge as the Notre Dame in Paris, the Renaissance-style inspired…
Read moreLiving isn’t fair. The past ten months in Brookings had been a continual tussle of having faith and not having faith – a fluctuation that, in most instances, opted to stop on the former. Lately, however, my psyche had settled for the latter. The infinitesimal linear membranes of my reasoning…
Read moreIn less than two weeks time, it will be Christmas day. While I contemplate the birth of Jesus, I am also enormously grateful to God for bestowing a precious gift – a writing ability that I continue to hone to this day. I would like to close this year’s column…
Read moreNovember 30 is the day I turn a year older. It is the best time for reminiscing about sweet memories of the year before, musing on all things that have been left undone, reflecting on friends who, in all my years of existence, have remained faithful and never changed and,…
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