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The evening was Saigon hot and the humidity, although bearable, was just enough to pop-out the sweat. The restaurant, on a darken side street, was croded and cloudy with BBQ smoke from legions of charcoal pots being used at the tables of families, tourists, locals and lovers cooking their meat selection....be it  beef, pork, shrim, goat ... or even field rat, but the smell was sensational and alluring. There was no pretense of style or decor, this place was about eating and the menu reflected page upon page of every consumable one, or at least I, could think of to eat, and more. We passed on the roasted goat, pork, and of course the roasted chicken and ..., but we did go with a quarter of a young pig ... roasted over hot coals at the front wall of the eatery. There along the sidewall walk, young sweating men worked at the art of roasting the pink porkers and turning the days old piglets into a taste treat beyond caring about the death of such a young...

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. -Jennifer Edwards

An episode in my life describing a move to another place was when my family and I moved from Vietnam to the United States.  My mom wanted my sister and I to have a better education and more opportunities. I was really sad when I had to leave my dad, his family, my school and my friends. I was a new advent at my new school. I was really lonely then but after I made my new friends. The neighborhood we moved in has a friendly ambience. I was an itinerant because my family has moved to different places many times. I went to four elementary schools total. I had good friends there and felt sad to leave them. Cà Na  6 grade

In general everybody love to be free. It's sometimes so wonderful that no one around ties us with responsibilities or bothers us by their presence. But why are people still tied together by marriage or just living together? That's because we need each each other so much. "It is rare to find people who actually like to be single and want to stay that way. What one finds more frequently are men and women who say they adore being single but who spend most of their nonworking time looking for some kind of sexual or romantic attachment"...(Suzanne Gordon - Lonely in America) A human being is not a rock or a piece of wood. All of us, each one has a brain, a heart and a soul. We all know how the feeling of happiness and sadness is, when sharing and being shared is .... We feel how loneliness is ... Especially when we are lonely, that's the time we really need someone maybe just for a hug or a touch. I sometimes really want to be alone. That is the time I...

I once saw you on the cloud of souls. I saw your true essence. And I knew you were my twinsoul. Our love felt so intense, there was so much love it was indescribable. Yet so very real you and I were. More real than anything on this earth would be. I felt a love way beyond this earth. A love that knows no bounds. Knowing we always meet everynight on this wonderful cloud... It is like we were this cloud and I saw your eyes look lovingly into mine. I could have wept for the joy of it! Knowing nothing in this world or any world will ever separate us. For we are always one! One for all time and that time is never ending!

It just happenned yesterday http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mall-in-columbia-on-lockdown-amid-reports-of-shooter/2014/01/25/4b3e8fb2-85e2-11e3-b85b-b305db87fb90_story.html The right to feel safe The right to bear firearms is ensured by our Constitution. Yes, we have the right to protect ourselves but we also need a right to feel safe at home, at school, at work, on the street, in a crowd, in the communities. You do not want to be a victim of firearm violence or crime; neither do I. Thus, I believe in tightening gun control laws and making them more strict. It should be difficult for one to get a gun, and impossible for just about everyone to get military-style weapons such as semi and fully automatic high-capacity ammunition weapons in our nation. Today in our country, there are too many victims of gun violence because we make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons. Nearly 100,000 Americans are shot each year, in which more than 30,000 people died...

A group of 57 children from Vinh Son orphanage, Kontum and adult supervisory attended the 3 day Beach Trip to Nha Trang this year. This trip was a special gilf from FoCH, Inc., a group of nice Americans who have a deep love for the unlucky Vietnamese orphans. This is to report that the children, the nuns, as well as my two daughters and I have all returned safely and tired after a beautiful trip. The 2007 Beach trip has ended. The bus departed from Kontum early in the morning down to Nha Trang.  The Saint Joseph Seminary there offered the children rooms and food during time they stayed in Nha Trang. The first day we visited Hon Chong beach of Nha Trang. The afternoon was most beautiful, blue sky and beautiful blue green water. The beach sand was very clean and bright and the shoreline was edged with many large and beautiful rocks and boulders. After the exciting day the children all had dinner at the seminary. The Fathers there helped us to order the food fo...