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thanks Fatima, for your kind words and for welcoming me to Pulsewire. i will be writing more in the coming days and weeks, am a bit tied up with work and applying for a new job too. hope to read more from you soon and i'm sure i will have lots of fun!
kelsang

thanks Michelle, for welcoming me to PulseWire. hopefully i will begin to write in my journal in the near future. i live between Kenton and St. Johns in North Portland and love to live/work here. i just began two new volunteer jobs, and am in the process of applying to get a paid part time position elsewhere as well. it's been a fun summer and am enjoying the cooler fall weather as well. after all, this is oregon, it rains here!

more later,
Kelsang

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Hi Jade:
I have been rather busy, even with my volunteer jobs, and haven't made the time to write any journal entries. i am much better at telling stories, and when i meet someone in person, i am always full of stories about everything under the sky. this topic is interesting, and if i can make the nov 15 deadline i will do my best to submit an entry. obviously land means many different things to many people. in my mind, since i have travelled so much and lived on different continents, physical land, though having very deep roots and meaning to groups of people or cultures, tribes, states, and countries, is not that important to me personally. i am home wherever i am and usually it is on land, and everything i experience is transitory, and impermanent, meeting people here and there. but land still plays an important role in my story-telling, since i identify names, faces, people, and places, along with events and experiences, and my memory begins with a place and time, therefore location is important and every little detail of the physical surrounding is remembered and brought back to the present time when one can sense the exact moment of the time of the original event,... well, something along those lines is what i would write about when i say something about what Land means to me. i know that may not have been the intent of the question, but that would be my response. in case i don't get time to compose my thoughts more succinctly then this will have to do for now... take care and hope you enjoyed the wonderful weather this weekend in Portland, Oregon as we near another beautiful full moon night, and a marvelous sunny day with blue skies earlier this Sunday afternoon!
Regards, Kelsang