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A poem about a meal in a small town in India

A short poem about Oil

A meditation on Condo Development on rthe beach in Cancun Mexico

Some friends and myself compare a $3 bottle of wine with a $400 bottle of wine.

My backyard is a small pond in New Hampshire called Scobie Pond. Here I have taken a bit of video in the area and added some canned music and some Zen sayings. I hope you take something away with you.

A friend, a monk from Phnom Penh, took me to the temple where he spend his boyhood and learned Buddhism

This is a video of a boat tour I took around Chicago recently. Also titled, "The rube from the sticks gawks at the tall buildings."

I went to visit my friend, Jerry, in Virginia. I took this footage and had it sitting in my computer. I wanted to get rid of it, so I out this together. You may find something herein...but I doubt it.

On Sunday, September 30 2007 at the Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, the tree which was the inspiration for the poem "Tree At My Window", having been declared decayed and dangerous was cut down. This is a video of that event.

A short sermon about the problems of burning coal

Sunday. Sept 23 2007. A peace march is held in Portsmouth to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the signing of the Russian Japanese peace treaty at the naval yard there.

In experimenting with my new canon HD camera, I realized I needed new HD editing tools. I bought a $50 package calle MAGIX. I am not sure I like it. It is a bit of a pain in the butt. Has a mind of its own, but I weill give it a fair shot The music is by a guy named Kid that I met on a bus in Thailand. He invited me to visit the temple he lived at. I did and stayed two weeks. My videos are elsewhere. I have no idea what the words say, probably a romantic ballad. Perhaps someone will tell me. I thought it had the sweet plaintive quality that I wanted to go along with the video. I hope you enjoy

Avisit to the Strung Meang Chey Dump in Pnon Penh, Cambodia.

On Saturday, August 25, hundreds of peace activists marched to the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine to protest the war in Iraq. This is a video of that event.

Two sides. Same coin.

Is the bottomless cup empty or full.

Who is the stronger?

Where are these men that were created equal?

Participate?

What rules the rulers?

Life is with people

The las6t of the eighty-one verses of the Tao in which I reveal myself.

The Strung Meang Chey dump is located on the outskirts of Phnon Penh in Cambodia. Hundreds of people struggle there to etch out a living from the rubbish of the city. I had visited there earlier but this time I went with a Cambodian friend who was able to translate the stories of some of these people.

Over 700 years ago they started manufacturing ceramics near the Wiengkalong Temple in the mountains of northern Thailand. This video shows the manufacturing process as it is today.

This is an introduction to the Tao Teh Ching, the ancient book of Chinese wisdom. I have adapted each of the eighty one verses to video. They may be found elsewhere, or in my channel.

Wiengalomng Temple, locatred in the mountains of Northern Thailand, has been a center of the manufacture of potteru for over 2000 years. Here we visit the temple grounds.

300 families were uprooted from their homes in Phnom Penh Cambodia and moved to a paddy field 22 km outside the city. This is a visit to that village i months later.

NCLO is a publicly funded NGO which helps orphans and the poor in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Each year they invite a group of volunteers to come to Cambodia for a week to work with them. They all this "The Volunteer Experience."

A short meditation in a bamboo forest in Cambodia

While riding along a rural road outside Siem Reap, I came across this rural wedding.

I discovered Hok Sokrin in an orphqanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He paints water colors of his earlier life in the countryside. Enjoy.

Following a boy drivingg a herd of cows down a narrow path, I stumbled upon this small village along the rive in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Various views of street markets in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The water festival, boat races in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 2006.

How can any photographer resist an image of a silouette of dozen or so boys in a high tree jumping to the river below. This was taken in front of an orphanage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

On September 20, 2006, over 750 members of the peace and faith coalitions of New Hampshire marched to the state house to proclaim their support for peace and against the war in Iraq. This is a record of that event. I would appreciate your comments.

On September 16 and 17 of 2006, the pagan tribes of Olympia and Seattle gathered to celebrate the coming of Autumn. These are scenes from that celebration.

A poem about the international implications of global warming.

On August 26, 2006 more than 700 peace loving Americans gathered in Kennebunkport, ME. to march peacefully to the Bush family compound where George W Bush was visiting, and to protest the war in Iraq and other Bush policies destrucftive of the earth.

A visit to a Cambodian fishing village.

This video is slow, ponderous, philosophical and worst of all it attempts to be poetic. I recommend you avoid it lest you are inclined to such things.

Little questions

In an attempt to eliminate Buddhism. many temples were destroyed by the Pol Pot administration. Now Cambodia is going through a renaissance of temple building. This video records scenes from the building and opening celebration of one such located on the outskirts of Siem Reap.

It's all about poverty.

Where none may look.

This is a repost. In a previous version, I had allowed a picture of a P#### to slip in. It is now sanitized, though the ideas are not. Before you qrind your teeth in anger, think Irony.

This is a repost. After 4 months someone told me there was no sound. This is dedicated to all who, like me, have been influenced by the Carter Family.

A song about cocaine, marijuana, pcp, heroin, magic mushrooms, peyote, songwriting and other drugs.

In which I deliver school books to some Cambodian school children. I use my new microphone for the first time and add a voice track. I hope it isn't too much.

Among the ruins of the ancient temples of Ayrutthaya, Thailand