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Just so everyone knows, the earthquake down in Chengdu today did not affect us this far north. The Johnsons are back in Xining packing and re-packing and tying down the fort (or whatever strange metaphor you’d like to use for such things). We were all so exhausted today I doubt we would have EVEN noticed…
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The girls, Anna and Sarah, have had a bad case of "la duzi" lately, otherwise known as diarrhea. The other night Anna came into the living room and with a very sad face said to Christa, "Mommy, I had diarrhea again." Christa replied sympathetically, "I know, Anna. Tomorrow, Beth [a co-worker friend] and I are…
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It’s not uncommon to lose electricity for a day or two in China without any explanation, especially out where we live. But here’s an interesting power outage story that ends in pecans… Last month I went to pay the electric bill for our apartment. (You’ve heard about going "paperless". Well, China has this concept down…
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On Christa’s birthday a few days ago it looked like this outside… Warm! Very warm. I was digging trenches over the weekend in a short-sleeved T-shirt. But this morning when we woke up all the surrounding mountains were COVERED in snow. (Yep, I snapped a picture of it, but the camera battery is dead so…
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This beautiful young lady (left) is celebrating a birthday today… Wishing my wife all the best today and in her new year! (note: I couldn’t find a photo of Christa where she wasn’t hugging someone in the family. That says something about her I think.)
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The sun comes out and I pull off my fleece jacket and wonder if I really needed to wear my thermals underneath my jeans today. It is mid-April after all. A cloud rolls in, covering the sun, and I can feel my arms getting chilled beneath my long-sleeved T-shirt. The fleece goes back on. What’s…
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This is an amazing book… It is a book I am sure I will re-read soon, but much more slowly. Some of the expressions and depictions of Christian spirituality contained in these pages touched me more than probably 80 or 90 percent of the books I’ve read from the "Christian Living" section of most Christian…
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Against my better judgment I filled out a bracket for the NCAA tourney this year. And what do you know, I won! (Here’s how:) Granted I was competing against only 3 other people (for "a plate of ribs" at our favorite pub in Edmonds), but still, it’s an accomplishment. I correctly picked Kansas to win…
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Well, it’s home for about 5 more weeks or so. Our guest apartment is on the left hand side, the window 4th from the bottom (2nd from the top). I thought some of you might like to see what an apartment complex looks like in this town… p.s. You may have noticed the new Countdown…
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