Korea In My Heart

Sadly, I'm not in  Seoul, or even better - in 안양시 Central 공완 - to enjoy this view. In this part of the world where I am from, usually there is about one week of leaves changing colors before a huge cold wind-storm blows them all into the streets - leaving trees everywhere bare as if they were dead. And there is this teeter-tottering of the temperatures between a typical Summer day and full-on Winter. I seriously want to replace my thermostat with one which can activate both the air-con and the heater within the same 24-hour period, because here it goes with the territory. But as I watch the weather broadcasts from Seoul, I can't help but watch my imagination take the trip over the ocean to where the stone sidewalks are surrounded by trees of brilliant reds, yellows and other hues signalling the change of the seasons. The images of brisk, beautiful mornings and the sounds of joyful voices taking to the streets as the day begins is just on the edge of my senses, it seems. ...

Recently, there was a student at Texas Tech who shot an officer in the face. And only a few days before that was the sniper in Las Vegas who killed 59. The media always comes back to the guns. "It's a gun control problem." Reporters ask questions almost as though it was part of a trouble-shooting flow chart. "What is a student doing with a gun on campus?" "How did he manage to smuggle so many firearms into a hotel room without being noticed?" And other such bull crap. Those simply are not the right questions at all. But here's some interesting questions: Why was a convicted drug seller still a student at Texas Tech? Why was he still living in the dorms among impressionable young people? Or better still, "What causes someone to take the life of another human being?" That's a hard one to figure out, and so the media won't try to get to that one. But what bothers me worse is that a large percentage of peopl...

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