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NED connections - small world2009-02-22T02:56:16Z2009-02-22T02:56:16ZLinda Nowakowskihttp://www.ned.com/user/u523412994/tag:ned.com,2009-02-22:/user/u523412994/news/48/2009-02-22T02:56:16Z
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<p>Not long ago I got an email from Sinsia Kao of Taiwan. She said she had found me through NED. She had heard about Asoke and wanted to make a connection to them and asked if I could help her.</p>
<p>She arrived on Friday and we have made the connections and she is busy learning about sustainable development and living.</p>
<p>Sinsia is an elementary school teacher in Taiwan. She is in her m id 30's, single and looking for a life more in tune with the earth and with people. She had come to Thailand before and came back here about 2 months ago to get her certification in perma-culture in Chiang Mai. While she was there she heard about the Asoke communities and did a web search. When she left Chiang Mai she went to Laos to travel around for almost a month.</p>
<p>We talked about what drew her to return to Thailand. She said that here she finds real community in the small villages. She just wants to live a simple life in real community. She wanted to come here to learn about making soil houses, gathering seed, making soap... She has found much more. She was so excited to learn about growing mushrooms and seeing the installation of a small bio-diesel generator that will provide cooking fuel for the Ratchathani Asoke Community from the food scraps and agricultural garbage.</p>
<p>She will stay at Ratchathani Asoke with a couple of my fellow grad students and then on Wednesday they will take her to Srisa Asoke where she will get to see more and learn about alternative medicines. I will join her on Friday evening.</p>
<p>One of the first westerners to study the Asoke communities was Marja-Leena Heikala-Horn from Finland. She wrote one of the first books I read on the communities. She is now the head of the International College at Mahidol Salaya. She will be at Srisa Asoke for the week-end renewing old acquaintances. She and I are going to use the time to make an email friendship real.</p>
<p>I just got a notice from another friend of the <strong>Parliament of Religions 2009</strong> to be held in Melbourne the beginning of December. It looks like a place I need to go to start a bigger conversation on how people of all faiths might be able to band together to turn around economics. Looks like I will shorten my trip to the US. Imagine my disappointment with missing the worst of winter!!!!</p>
<p>Gayle....can I sleep on your sofa?</p>
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<hr /><p><b>Last comment added: </b>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:25:01 PDT</p>Comment 1 on NED connections - small world2009-09-21T14:36:33Z2009-09-21T14:36:33ZAkello Debrahhttp://www.ned.com/user/u189930786/tag:ned.com,2009-09-21:/user/u523412994/news/48/0/2009-09-21T14:25:01Z
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<p>Dear Linda,
I know this is not the right place to upload this picture. I was just trying to learn.</p>
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