In celebration of ten years of blogging here at LTG, each week for the next 5251 50 49 48 47 46  45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 weeks I will delve deep into the sewer archives of past posts to bring you a tidbit of blog history.  I had originally planned to call this series “The best of LTG”, but damn, there just wasn’t much “best” to be found.  And mediocre is too hard to spell.)

Ten years ago I was settling into my comfortable Korean life and establishing what would become my regular routines.  One of which was reading blogs of my fellow expats.  In a post called Morning reflections I wrote about one of my favorites, Big Hominid’s Hairy Chasms.

On that long ago morning I read Kevin Kim’s Easter meditation: put it down.  It was a timely post and a timeless one.  I’ve gone back to it several times over the years when I needed to be reminded of the simple wisdom of “putting it down”.  You should really read the whole thing, but here’s a taste:

You can’t see the new life of Easter if you’re always looking backward. Easter points simultaneously to the present and to the future, to hope and happiness and fulfillment. Think positively. Embrace goodness where you find it. Actively seek the good, don’t wait passively for it.

Anyway, I was hooked and have been a regular reader of Mr. Kim’s pearls and gems ever since.  Several years later I had the honor and pleasure to meet Kevin in person for the first time, and we are slated to get together again next Saturday.  This time around we’ll be joined by another blogger/author Young Chun.  I wrote about his recently published book here.

And the wheel in the sky keeps on turning.

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