Comments on: Christmas is coming http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/ Archetypes and Personal Development - the only website make sense of them both Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:07:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Administrator http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/#comment-102 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:14:47 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/#comment-102 Thank you for these heart-warming comments on this snowy day. I was a little afraid to write about Madagascar at all, since it seems so hard to do any sort of justice to it at all. Even at the time we knew we were in some kind of odd time-warp, in a place untouched by so many of the mounting ills of the world. The revolution a couple of years later didn't help, either. Still, I google majunga for images and found some of the familiar sights, including a mention of Madame Chabaud - who ran the only bar in town (also the local brothel, next door) - and even the Katsepe ferry was pictured. This battered item is a 1944 army landing craft that I thought must have sunk long ago. Since there is no dock at Katsepe it just runs up on the beach and everyone clambers off. From its rusted prow I watched manta rays scud beneath the waves. Behind me, in a truck, were trussed up, live, three wild boars, whose wicked little eyes said something else about nature. Paradise mislaid. Thank you for these heart-warming comments on this snowy day. I was a little afraid to write about Madagascar at all, since it seems so hard to do any sort of justice to it at all. Even at the time we knew we were in some kind of odd time-warp, in a place untouched by so many of the mounting ills of the world. The revolution a couple of years later didn’t help, either. Still, I google majunga for images and found some of the familiar sights, including a mention of Madame Chabaud - who ran the only bar in town (also the local brothel, next door) - and even the Katsepe ferry was pictured. This battered item is a 1944 army landing craft that I thought must have sunk long ago. Since there is no dock at Katsepe it just runs up on the beach and everyone clambers off. From its rusted prow I watched manta rays scud beneath the waves. Behind me, in a truck, were trussed up, live, three wild boars, whose wicked little eyes said something else about nature.
Paradise mislaid.

]]> by: Mary Lou Shields http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/#comment-101 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:51:10 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/#comment-101 When I think of your commitments to students and family and to your own standards of excellence, my mind boggles. In a way, despite its complexity, your holiday in Madagascar sounds like a simpler time. My wish for you in 2007 is one more "wondrous Chritmas." Happy holidays, Allan. MLou When I think of your commitments to students and family and to your own standards of excellence, my mind boggles.

In a way, despite its complexity, your holiday in Madagascar sounds like a simpler time.

My wish for you in 2007 is one more “wondrous Chritmas.”

Happy holidays, Allan.

MLou

]]> by: Cathy http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/#comment-100 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:05:40 +0000 http://allanhunter.net/blog/2007/12/19/christmas-is-coming/#comment-100 Sounds magical! And may we all have the same awe and pleasure wherever we are this Christmastime! Sounds magical! And may we all have the same awe and pleasure wherever we are this Christmastime!

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