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Scotty's Words: 03.07
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. I try to appreciate the ironies of life, to see them - recognize them, and either love them or hate them. Or so I tell myself. This –emulation – (like buying XBOSS games at the market) of course applies to how different countries, approach recreation, and how different countries HA! So after a complicated series of hand gestures, saying ...
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Scotty's Words: 06.07
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. The Market Experience: Scotty's Guide to Surviving the Sale. Bartering, there is a learned skill. It is essentially the real fun behind the market experience, meaning to take away nothing from collecting keepsakes and touristy bits for family and friends. And the activity and novelty of just spending money, even boring American mone...Eager...
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Scotty's Words: 06.06
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. I'm gonna give it a shot. Training for a marathon that is. With the Help of HCD (HardCoreDuathlete), or Andy from RM, I have a plan. My planned marathon debut will be 5 November in Moncton, the Legs for Literacy Marathon. Here is the plan. Week of July 16 - 22. Tuesday: 4x Hills or 4x 1 mile repeats. Thursday: 20 minutes @ Tempo. Thursday: ...
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Scotty's Words: Scotty's Injury Update
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. Been a long time.I will be posting with much more frequency in the next while. This hasn’t really affected my running, and in fact I was so inspired by following the ATB progress on line I did 16.5 km run yesterday. I told you those things to tell you this:. A little while later it was time to go in, but Raven was being stubborn about getti...
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Scotty's Words: 02.07
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. It has taken me a few days to get to writing this down, but these days my time is not my own. As always I apologize for the length, hopefully it doesn’t take you longer to read it than it did for me to run it. I had, well, a pair of blue shorts. As I stood in the starting clot, well behind the “pros” I was standing next to a cou...But as I ...
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Scotty's Words: 01.07
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. The agony and the ecstasy. The RM thread post is called “A Thank You Letter to RM”. The Blog version of this account is called “the agony and the ecstasy”. And in reality it is both. In a few days I depart for A-Stan, and I wanted to leave a last post from homeside; as I do intend to send home frequent updates once over yonder. Getting chos...
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Scotty's Words: 03.08
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. Been a long time.I will be posting with much more frequency in the next while. This hasn’t really affected my running, and in fact I was so inspired by following the ATB progress on line I did 16.5 km run yesterday. I told you those things to tell you this:. A little while later it was time to go in, but Raven was being stubborn about getti...
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Scotty's Words: 04.07
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. I recently received a care package from my parents, inside was the best morale booster of all, my mom’s homemade fudge and Rockets…I love them candies! The one thing seemingly forgotten is that there is a cunning, and insidious enemy in this country (who do come from other countries as Afghanistan is the front line for Islamic extremists) w...
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Scotty's Words: 08.06
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. 002 (response to an RM post). I've weighed in on this topic before, though I 'm not going to wade through the search function and find what I've said I will make an effort to throw out a Readers Digest Version of my thoughts. Some one on RM wrote:. What good are we accomplishing there? What cause are Canadians dying for? The mission stateme...
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Scotty's Words: The New Truth
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8220;Like a beautiful flower, Brightly colored but lacking scent, So are well-spoken words Fruitless when not carried out.” Dhammapada, Chapter Four Flowers para. 51. Hey Casual Readers and Friends! So how about we go in a completely different direction? We take a departure from thoughts of Afghanistan, and we take a look at something new. My face has been rounder at times; my 36-inch waist pants have ranged from loose to tight. My 32-inch pants have ranged from tight to obscene! This is after a six-mont...
