Hypatia Comments: Hoping to Got Some Dialogs Going...

At 5:18 AM, Hypatia Theon said... to Common Sense.

Well... America has this fixation on polarized power struggles. There is another way though. Wisdom <- Please consider the contrast between American and other countries expressions of favorite sayings in this sharing of International Wisdom. Then, if you've a mind to discuss this more philosophically, please get back to me?

Thanks, Hypatia Theon

At 7:22 AM Hypatia Theon said... to Lord of Swans .

You know, SDW, ours could really be another marriage made in heaven because your interests dovetail so nicely with ours. As husband and wife we blend East and West with husband a born-again Christian, one time member of an American Pentecostal house church complete with laying on of hands, casting out marijuana daemons, and the entire fundamentalist nine yards, now become much more philosophical and spiritually eclectic over years of disillusionment with American political realities and bare-foot journeys across the mountains of Northern India dressed in the orange robes of a sadu, carrying only a simple bedroll and begging bowl. Currently retired from teaching ESL at various companies, colleges, and universities, he performs Christian weddings on weekends for 98% non-Christian couples.
The wife, raised in zenshu now a member of nichirenshu, had childhood dreams to become a veterinarian and travel to Africa, but after one ronin year following shikenjigoku failure to enter a veterinaian school in Hokkaido, compromised her dream to become a pharmacologist at a Fukuoka University, where she became notorious for losing her virginity at the age of 22 as forfeit in an epic battle martial arts battle upon which her own professors wagered bets in excess of 1,000 USD with Chen (Nicknamed after the Chinese martial artist, whom he slightly resembled.) who also became her first lover afterwards. (He stares from some old photo albums looking rather harassed as he often complained about being bitten during love play... She still does that sometimes. Ouch!) Satchi no longer practices those arts studied in childhood: Kendo, Nagainata, Yari, Karate, and later after she and her friend Matsuo met the Dragon in the Mountain, a mysterious Chinese who lived in the forests between Shimabara and Fugen Dake, she learned some Chinese art like Tai Kuan Do until Matsuo died hanggliding on the first day of the New Year when he crashed down in a mountain river and no one could reach him to unfasten his harness before he drowned. Anyway, I was so impressed by the inner beauty of that samurai spirit that led her to strap on my paraglider and try to fly from the highest peak in Nagasaki for what would have been a suicide flight if I hadn't collapsed the risers before she could actually take off. Ah, memories. *SMILE* Hope we can make a few, too.

Love, Hypatia Theon (At home in "The One" where East meets West)