tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post1716298825427171764..comments2023-07-04T14:56:18.709+02:00Comments on The Cheung Family Adventures: What a FINN-ish!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03190053635132649700noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post-31686933823707264912011-08-24T03:00:03.781+02:002011-08-24T03:00:03.781+02:00Cool handstands! Maybe if you did them during the...Cool handstands! Maybe if you did them during the rainstorm, your feet wouldn't have gotten wet!!<br /><br />Sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun!<br /><br />We'll be reading about what you're doing again next week.<br /><br />Scott GemmellTracihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03626107889647419971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post-28826981964916638762011-08-22T16:03:13.854+02:002011-08-22T16:03:13.854+02:00Beautifully said, Jedi.Beautifully said, Jedi.Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023321692274776855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post-65614934283711109802011-08-22T08:34:42.277+02:002011-08-22T08:34:42.277+02:00Funny you should mention gap year! Right now we h...Funny you should mention gap year! Right now we have friends whose children are all about to enter university. Where in Europe it is expected you take a gap year, here it is highly discouraged and considered a sign of impending failure followed by years of family therapy. Which is sad. Personally, I am all for living a "Gap Life" and do everything in my power to influence my nephews to do the same:-) No matter where I have gone in the world I am always amazed and humbled by those who have take far longer and harder journeys than I and have never travelled farther than the city or town where they were born. They, I beleive, have had the best education of all.Jedi Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080578080962654848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post-82296918838742897182011-08-22T02:55:29.851+02:002011-08-22T02:55:29.851+02:00Jedi, your words on the journey are quite interest...Jedi, your words on the journey are quite interesting to me. They cause me to recall words of George Santayana which I viewed a long time ago, and which I have ever since carried in my consciousness...<br /><br />"For to travel hopefully is a better thing than to have arrived."<br /><br />The Cheung family is involved in a big journey. It is interesting to read about it and see the pictures. <br /><br />So much of life can be sensed as journey (as you imply). It is a metaphor that they are experiencing. <br /><br />I was recently reading about young people who have a "gap year" of travel before, during or after university. Here are Jacob and Zachary getting quite a jump on that. But I suspect that there will be a great deal more travel ahead in their lives. I have a feeling that Stephen sort of considers himself a citizen of the world, and they may too. Well might we all.Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023321692274776855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post-41853791523825523662011-08-22T01:56:10.692+02:002011-08-22T01:56:10.692+02:00Well said Pilgrim. Compassion and humility are so...Well said Pilgrim. Compassion and humility are so often strived for but so rarely achieved. It is not what one does with their life - it is how one lives their life. The true measure of a man/woman is the courage to walk the road less traveled and taking the time to stop and listen to those you may pass along the way. A pilgrim never expects to be compensated or "honored" for their journey - wanting only to have the honor of bearing witnessing to life in its many guises. The destination is never the goal. We will all arrive their soon enough. It is the journey itself, how we choose to get there, and who and what we acknowledge, reject or ignore along the way.<br /><br />Thankfully, I do not need to go to church by boat. I'm afraid if I did, I would have to become an atheist until Stephen developed a cure for sea sickness:-)Jedi Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09080578080962654848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1472948594282768200.post-35830730698927280242011-08-21T21:34:56.780+02:002011-08-21T21:34:56.780+02:00I like that pic of Debbie and Jacob. (I like all ...I like that pic of Debbie and Jacob. (I like all the pics)<br /><br />I wonder why the Helsinkians need to be boated to church.<br /><br />On compassion, I often think of these words by St. Philo of Alexandria:<br /><br />"Be compassionate, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.'Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023321692274776855noreply@blogger.com