Category: Life Events
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One Year On, Valhalla Echoes
It’s been a year since my father’s death and I’ve been remembering him in an unpredictable mix of dreams, reflections, and feelings. My heart still shifts around empty spots, and other spaces change shape as the memories I carry adapt to this moment’s inner and outer life. I’ve done a lot of remembering through the…
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A Biographical Synopsis of My Life
Daniel wrote this for a Wheaton mission home reunion in June 2013. With the help of Google Maps one can zoom in on southwestern China to an area along the Chinese border with northern Myanmar (Burma) and follow the course of the Salween river northwards until the river almost converges with the border. A few…
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79th birthday
August 1, 2022 A few of us gathered in Daniel’s room at Park Place Assisted Living in Reno, NV: me (his son Dylan), my wife Ann, and Brook (daughter of Daniel’s nephew Jon). The anticipation of events like this seemed to enhance the effects of Daniel’s primary Parkinson’s medication, Carbodopa-Levadopa. He was in good spirits…