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Precerpt (excerpt prior to publication from the forthcoming memoir,  In with the East: A Mary Poppins Kind of Life  by Dr. Betty Lou Leaver Camp Julien: Barren Beauty and Blunt Reality When I arrived at Camp Julien, I was surprised at how barren it was. The surrounding mountains looked more than arid—they looked as if the “green” had been bombed out of them. It probably had. Facilities and Perspective The facilities, from what I could see, were pretty good—though everyone has their own comfort level with roughing it. Mine is fairly high. Life in Acton had been just barely on the grid. We grew our own food, milked our own cows, and butchered our own animals for meat. (I hated that part, so it’s pretty amazing that I ended up serving in the Army and then spent much of my civilian career working for the Army.) All the structures at Camp Julien were tents—large and small. The teachers worked in the same tent they slept in. They complained about it, but I couldn’t fully underst...

  In an age marked by both astonishing connectivity and deep fragmentation, the call for unity may sound idealistic—perhaps even naïve. And yet, there is a stirring truth that transcends dogma: when people of diverse faith traditions gather, not to debate creeds but to share stories, serve together, and break bread, something quietly miraculous happens. We glimpse what unity could look like—not uniformity, but harmony. Interfaith collaboration isn’t about erasing our differences. It’s about honoring them while discovering common ground: reverence for life, the pursuit of justice, the mystery of compassion. In my own journey, I've seen how a Sikh meal shared at a gurdwara, a Muslim friend’s breaking of fast, a Catholic mass with incense curling heavenward—all carry distinct rhythms but beat from the same heart. 🔗 The Threads That Bind The Journey to Unity begins with humility: the kind that listens more than it speaks, that seeks to understand before rushing to be understood. E...

The e-book edition of  Rainstorm of Tomorrow  by Renyuan Dong  is on Kindle countdown discount, beginning at 99 cents, from July 1 through June 8. The earlier you get it, the more you save! Book Description Rainstorm of Tomorrow: The Ever-Flowing Banquet of Philosophy  is a mind-bending journey through the wild frontiers of thought, where philosophy collides with cutting-edge science and modern art to challenge everything you think you know about truth, ethics, and aesthetics. With dazzling intellect and bold imagination, this groundbreaking work fuses classical philosophical inquiry with the latest insights from  quantum mechanics ,  relativity ,  neuroscience ,  epigenetics ,  evolutionary psychology , and  social Darwinism . It draws readers into a dynamic feast of ideas—where  rationality meets abstraction , and  logic dances with paradox . Each of the book’s three parts delivers a profound intellectual shake-up: Truth ...