Saturday, February 02, 2013

SGT Saffar Arjmandi (1977 - 2006) -- part 03

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Monday was the eighth anniversary of the death of SGT Saffar Arjmandi, of whom I wrote a couple of times while I was deployed before.  Th...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Some prayer requests

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I just spoke with my cousin Gail (well, she's actually married to my first cousin Mike, but I consider her to be in every way my cous...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Feedback

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I'm taking a class that is required by the Army, and I do not know who's grading my papers, etc., that I submit online. A couple...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Spectacular sunsets

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For the three winters I've been here since getting home from Iraq and Kosovo, I've been grateful for the mildness of the weather ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Dribs and drabs

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I've actually spoken with one person who will be deployed to the same place, and I think I was able to answer many of his questions (...
Monday, January 28, 2013

A waking nightmare

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The Colonel's cat, Buddy, tends to be very sweet and interactive, and I'm very aware that I will miss him when I mobilize and dep...
Sunday, January 27, 2013

Remembering to breathe

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Relative to my upcoming deployment, it's been ten days now since I found out I'm being sent back to Southeastern Europe, and I st...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Like the dewfall

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"Like the dewfall" is a phrase from the mostly unfortunate reworking of the official texts used during the celebration of publi...
Friday, January 25, 2013

How can I keep from singing?

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Though I majored in music (and biology) when I was in college, and though I've flirted with voice lessons from time to time, it's...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

MIchael and Gail

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My first cousin Mike was a spook with the Air Force during the Vietnam conflict.  Years after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from that the...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

With beauty suffused

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This place, in the hills of Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the distance, lifts my spirits whenever I visit (which is def...
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

7. God’s Grandeur

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).  Poems.  1918. THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like ...
Monday, January 21, 2013

Retrogression

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I'll be spending this week with brother priests, on retreat in a spectacularly beautiful place.  I've not been able to be with th...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Twilight time

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Sunsets during the winter here can be spectacular, though these photos don't quite do justice to the actual experience. ...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Two birds and a hand

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The other day I groggily brewed my morning shot(s) of espresso, and I noticed Buddy the cat hunkered down on the floor of the kitchen in ...
Friday, January 18, 2013

Traveling with Tutankhamen

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I do a lot of driving in the course of my being an Army Chaplain these days. Unfortunately, on the Thursday after Christmas I had to dr...
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Back in the saddle again?

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Well, I found out this morning that the deployment back to Kosovo, which I heard about last night, is in fact etched in stone, and I'...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Sequoiadendron giganteum

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When my parents came out to California for my graduation from my PhD program in molecular neurobiology a dozen years ago, I took them with ...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง

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ข้าวเหนียวมะม่วง Like music to my ears, Khao Niao Ma Muang is one of my favorite phrases in Thai. This is because it's one of my f...
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

Oddness

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Oddness. For a while now, especially since leaving the demobilization station and returning to 'civilization', I've had a per...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

The Feast of St. Ignatius

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Two years ago today, then-SFC McG and I left Summer Camp - South by van on our way to Iraq. We were up at zero-dark-thirty in order to be...
Friday, July 30, 2010

The comforts of home....

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After being gone, effectively, for twenty-five months, it's really great to be back in the States and able to wear civilian clothes. T...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Worth a thousand words

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20 July 2010 'Nuff said! Blessings and peace to one and all, Fr. Tim, SJ View My Milblogging.com Profile
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Change

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There was a song from the mid-80s that I liked (lyrics by Bernard Ighner, though I can't remember who the female vocalist was) which ca...

To sleep--perchance to dream

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I've not mastered the art of sleeping in a barracks. This is probably due to the fact that I joined the Army at such an advanced age ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

There's no place like home

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I arrived home in California last night! Many thanks to the California Guard Chaplain and his wife and children, along with six members o...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

Parting Shots

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The Unit Ministry Teams of KFOR-12 (and I) welcomed our replacements enthusiastically a couple of weeks ago. Shortly before four of the fi...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Parting Gifts

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I've mentioned my buddies from the Ukrainian Army in previous blog posts. One of those guys, MSG S, speaks English quite well, while m...
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Saturday, July 24, 2010

DEMOB

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It had been raining not long before we arrived back at Summer Camp - North, but while our gear was being off-loaded and collected, the rain...