Senior Baha'i Youth Gathering-Daegu

I am at the train station in Daegu...about 3 hours from Seoul. I came down here to attend the Senior Baha'i Youth Gathering. I was so surprised by how much I enjoyed this event. Usually I find these occasions quite boring but this weekend was wonderful! I took TONS of pictures and I will give an indepth report on the weekend once I get all of the pictures downloaded.

I am sooooo tired but the weekend was great and needed!

Answer to Postings Not Appearing?

I may have figured out what my posting problem was. It seems that in Firefox the changes don't show up but in Explorer they do. I am testing this possibility now.....

...yep, that was it. Wierd! I also have a poetry blog and the post still updated while I was using Firefox. Maybe I have discovered the answer or only a quick fix. Maybe tomorrow I will be back to square one...but I hope not.

Blogger Frustration

I am not sure what in the world is happening on Blogger but I still can't see any of my most recent posts. No one has written back to my highly frustrated toned post on the "Help Site". I can't seem to find a way to contact them directly. This is a problem that shouldn't happening at all. It sucks immensely!!! The wierd thing is that I logged in on another computer and everything was there so now I am wondering if it is just my computer but that makes no sense.

Morning Musings

there is something wrong with my blog because the posts are not showing up but somehow people are able to see some of them and actually comment...i just don't see them.?

I started walking in the morning two days ago. I was supposed to be walking with a friend from work but this morning she wasn't feeling well. I am proud of myself because I got up and myself go exercise and didn't use the excuse that she wasn't coming so I could stay in bed. It was a good walk. I brought my MP3 player and walked away. I got to the entrance of Olympic Park. If I wanted to walk in the park I'd have to ride my bike there or start walking much earlier. I am uneasy about bike riding because the way people drive here is really wreckless and they really don't stop for pedestrians or bike riders. I'll have to think about this one.

I had a strange dream a couple of nights ago. I have had similar dreams in the past. I am weeping and the tears are coming from a very deep place. I am in different places and I am weeping. I can't move easily because of the sadness. I think I know now where these dreams come from. In my previous post "ingrown thorn" and I am not so sure how far back I wrote about being abused, there are very deep emotional and mental hurts that are very hard to get to...actually it feels more spiritual. I wish there were ways to not just help people heal emotionally and mentally but also spiritually...because abuse does confuse how one relates to God...and to the spark of Him inside their souls.

ingrown thorns

i have been feeling very out of sorts lately. i have started having a hard time sleeping again. my mind feels overwhelmed with a million things. i seem to have just enough energy. i don't have the brain power to write long intellectual blog posts, although i want to. i am experiencing an impatience that is very new to me. like a deep feeling of anxiety. i have written about it before and i really wish i could figure out how to overcome it. i know what it is but the cause is so deep and so old that i just don't know how to pull the thorn from my heart...it seems that the tissue has grown around the thorn. the thorn has become so much a part of my heart, my way of doing things, that i fear removing it because a hole will be left. what do i do then? i am familiar with things as they are now, even if i am unhappy...at least it is familiar.

Out with the Brothas

My brothas Faysal, Vahid, and Denny at a Salsa Comepetition that Denny danced in. He was AWESOME!!!!










My brotha from anotha motha, Faysal! He is Algerian by birth, Baha'i by choice and my brotha cuz we are like that!











My otha brotha from anotha motha, Denny. He is Korean American, Christian and searching, and is an INCREDIBLE salsa dancer. He is my brotha cuz we are just like that!










My brotha from the same motha, Vahid. He is 3 years younger than me. He has a twin brotha, Ruhi who is in Chicago. We also have another brotha, Badi who is working on a cruise line somewhere in the vast ocean and we have a sister Ruhiyyih...she is a mad crazy salesperson at Circuit City.

Down the Street from Layli's Place

As Layli went into the "Tokyu Store" I thought I'd catch a shot of the street. It was a hot day but many people were out. This was a small shopping area....













....here is the same street a little further down after a turn to the right. There were so many shops and so many things to buy. It would be a shoppers dream!

Tokyo...Just the Beginning More to Come

On the first night in Tokyo Layli took me to an event put on by Baha'is. It was a social and I was able to meet some wonderful women. May, the beautiful woman to the far left, and I connected easily. Layli is between May and I and she is one of my closest friends since high school. The woman on my right is from Korea and I cannot remember her name. She will be starting Ruhi Book 1 soon. She became interested as a result of hearing my Baha'i friends and I talking about it. Pretty cool...YEAH!!!





Salsa dancing allows me to meet some pretty cool people. I met Tomo at a salsa club in a a part of Tokyo called Roppongi. I saw her a few days later here in Seoul at the Salsa Congress.










Roppongi, where my salsa heaven was found in Tokyo on the Hibiya Line!!!













The same night I met Tomo, I actually saw her earlier at another club where this amazing man was teaching ON2 salsa. I never did catch his name but he was very kind and unpretentious which is hard to find in the Salsa community. Oh yeah! His father is Japanese and his mother Peruvian if I remember correctly.