An audio version of this post is available. Please click on the link below to listen to the post in its entirety. https://anchor.fm/s/dbba7148/podcast/rss What's pitted and scarred and filled with pock marks, yet is considered one of the sexiest objects out there? If your answer is 'tektites', you would be absolutely correct! At least you'd... Continue Reading →
I was sitting on my favorite chair outside in my backyard the other day, minding my own business, enjoying the winter sunshine when something happened which caused me to rethink a very boring subject--geometry. Since it's almost spring here, and I live in a very mild Mediterranean climate, the flowers were starting to bloom and... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Human CCC 1: On the Confluence of Crows and Monkeys) You all know me by now. If there is anything I love about Taoism, it's that much of it can be backed up by science, with the rest of the more esoteric stuff, still yet to be proved, not because it's not based... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Ancient Viet 2: Sunken Paradise) As a young Viet-American child growing up smack dab in the middle of the US (New Orleans no less), I quite often identified with the Vietnamese/Chinese community living in and around the south because there weren't really that many of us Asians in that part of the neighborhood... Continue Reading →
At the end of an old street named Phan Chu Trinh, in the ancient city of Hội An, there is a very old banyan tree. This banyan tree held a secret for many many years, until one day, that secret was revealed. The banyan tree had, at the foot of its trunk, a miếu (a... Continue Reading →
(Continued from The Original Asian Zodiac 2: The Moon Calendar) Lunar Calendar Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein said time was a relative construct of mankind. Certainly, if we talk about a calendar system, that is the truth. The current Asian Calendar (I call it Asian because it is spread throughout the Asian continent) used […]
Ahhhhhh. The wondrous scent of roasted Allium sativum, aka garlic, on an open flame, seared until blackened and then crushed and added to a succulent steak makes my mouth water. I love cooking with garlic in all its forms: fresh, dehydrated, powdered, liquid---I have them all. I also love adding them to recipes that are... Continue Reading →
Let me tell you guys about a little rock that's kinda boring looking. Actually, calling them rocks is a bit on the generous side. They are more like pebbles that are mostly black, with little pits and layers on it. If you placed one next to the landscape rocks outside in my garden, I would... Continue Reading →
I was at the herbal shop the other day and guess what! There was a sale on la hán quả, 6 for $4, so I bought me 6. Normally, I get them 4 for $4, so this was a fairly good sale. Now, for westerners, when I say la hán quả, nobody knows what I'm... Continue Reading →
I was chugging on a drink this afternoon, one of many that I normally imbibe on throughout my day, and I figured I might as well share it with you guys since it's something I've known about all my life but never bothered to say much about because you know, if it's common knowledge, who... Continue Reading →
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