We ate this beside the road as we were waiting for the school gates to open. We were early and hungry and it was cold. The only place that was open at 5:45AM in the dead of winter was not a place but a man with a mobile kitchen made from a converted oil drum. [...]

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Not the live kind, but the stationary seals that are painstakingly carved by Chinese artisans. I have placed from left to right, the progression in my taste and ability to tell lousy workmanship to master level. Over the years, I also discovered the beauty in stones and the most expensive of the lot in this [...]

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I hope when I am this old my friends will still be around and playing something like this. Although we currently live very sedentary lives, I have a feeling we will be outdoors more often as we get older.

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