Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
The wheel of the earth keeps turning. This is the wheel of the seasons, of the day, of a human lifetime, or of a year. Today I want to tell you about the turning of the wheel from the black of the west to the white of the north, from ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
The story of the Starshine Way sign was interrupted by my Christmas holiday trip to Berlin, so let me tell you now how it all turned out. When I last wrote to you about it, I had poured the concrete, and the sign was setting overnight in my laundry room. ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
One of the coolest things I did in Berlin was go for a run along the Berlin Wall. Kirsten lives in East Berlin, so I ran west along Pariser Kommune Allee until I came to Muhlenstrasse, and there it was! The Berlin Wall! How cool is that! To go for a ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
I approached the theatre and saw there were posters along the wall at street-level, with the movie theatre entrance up a flight of stairs and the theatre towering several stories above that. The posters showed Australia—a Nicole Kidman pic whose posters I'd seen everywhere, including Amsterdam, Prague, and Berlin. Very ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
I arrived in Berlin about 10 PM (after travelling 22 hours), and spent a lot of the next day sleeping. It was dark by the time I was ready for my first run, at about 5 PM. So my first run in Berlin was after dark, with the temperature around ...
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