To live, to survive, to enjoy, and be happy as far as possible.To accomplish those goals and targets you had set yourself, and some that maybe others had set you. To live as peacefully as possible with your fellow men, family, and friends. To reconcile differences. To forgive and ask for forgiveness. To love those …
Sometimes when you’re reminiscing over your past life, your mind for some reason focusses on a particular place that you know you have been to and recognize, and you know that that place triggered particular thoughts and concerns at the time you were actually there. You cannot now quite remember what those concerns were, but …
I feel as though God is timing my final years exactly so that I complete my tasks in a timely and well- ordered fashion. Although I get frustrated with apparent delays, the tasks that I am set, and have set myself, are being completed gradually, one after the other. I cannot rush things. I am …
I get through life by the skin of my teeth. I’m always in trouble of one sort or another, not of course intentionally, but either because of my thoughtlessness or by circumstances beyond my control, I seem to have to dig myself out of deep holes quite frequently. My Dad once said, after I’d returned …
Why are there potholes? What causes them? Are they inevitable? One pothole is created by any one or combination of the following…. mechanical, geological, meteorological….rain, subsidence, heavy traffic, road alignment, terrain, accident, extreme weather, poor engineering, poor materials, geological fault, earthquake or shifts, erosion…In Nepal, these factors all bear to an exceptional degree on the …
Just the very act of living each day and surviving in this mad world is a triumph of no little matter. It gets harder as you get older and more tired, the mountain a little steeper, the summit a little higher each day, but each day by a greater effort you manage to get to …
Surely that day cannot be too far off now. I can see it coming. Sometimes it appears tantalizingly close, sometimes it recedes into the far distance, but I know it is now within reach, and I am getting quietly excited. That incredible day is the day when all my “To Do” points have been deleted, …
Practical, hypothetical, and philosophical questions relating to road construction, house building, infrastructure development in Nepal (and elsewhere). Mud huts versus concrete. Aesthetic appearances of the mud hut may be better, but who can blame someone for wanting to live in a more robust house than a mud hut, however attractive it may look? Drainage or …
I have been thinking a lot about death recently. This is due to several reasons; the need to draw up a new Will; the impending inquest into my younger brother James’s death a year ago; the growing sense of growing older, with the days and weeks and years seeming to go by ever quicker, and …
Flood, fire, earthquake, destruction:-The moral must be:- why bother? Why go to all the trouble when it’s all going to be destroyed?What did Noah think when he saw the Deluge? Did he think it would rain just for a few days? No, he knew that it was going to be a huge flood because God …