BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEASON WITH
LABOR DAY START TO A NEW YEAR
- Sep-A-1 Index to the Sep-A-series
- The densely crowded
schedule of early 2003, with competing travel schedules superposed.
- A last minute salvage of our Cumberland Island plans.
- The Labor Day weekend—with
the traditional early morning long run for each of our holidays.
- The story of Shafkat’s close call, saved by pulse oximetry.
- My “case for a TV documentary” finds a ready reception in
a producer whom I last met flying over the Brooks Range in Alaska.
- With Kay’s help, I have sent
all the GPS data for GIS mapping of the “Roof of the World”
- And, now, the “Sky Is the Limit”, as I plot out the other
long remote treks I have made for GIS mapping of the GPS data I have gathered
in Asia, Africa, South America, Alaska, Antarctica, and Mountain Treks USA—Rockies,
Sierras, Cumberland.
- Introductions of Dan Wikler and Paul Farmer, both at Harvard,
but the latter in Haiti at this time, while enticing Dan to join in the next
Lingshed Trek.
- Invitation to Paul
Farmer in Haiti for a GWU visit as well as an introduction to Dan Wikler,
currently a Harvard-mate.
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The correspondence with Tenzin Geycha, personal secretary to His Holiness,
the Dali Lama XIV, regarding Panetics and Buddhist scholars.
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Shot down in meeting with my Dissertation Committee, who dismiss my thesis
proposal, and recommend dropping out of the degree, if no library-based bibliographic
search is to be done as the centerpiece of a post modern thesis work.
- A series of taxidermy pickups
and a quick trip to the Eastern Shore to visit the Schaefers, and to Zimmerman’s
in Pennsylvania to pick up the Kamchatka Snow Sheep Ram.
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