Brace Yourselves
The sands from the Gobi Desert are coming again: Yellow Dust Storm Expected Tuesday.
Spring in Korea is Yellow Dust season. When I heard of the "Yellow Dust from China" during my first Spring here in 1998, I dismissed it as so much xenophobic/nationalistic nonsense. It seemed like too much like blaming Japan for prostitution. It turned out I was wrong.
And it's nothing new, so we can't blame it on President George W. Bush for refusing to sign the Kyoto accord. As I learned in The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, the great Jesuit missionary/scientist experienced the same thing in the XVIth Century.
The sands from the Gobi Desert are coming again: Yellow Dust Storm Expected Tuesday.
Spring in Korea is Yellow Dust season. When I heard of the "Yellow Dust from China" during my first Spring here in 1998, I dismissed it as so much xenophobic/nationalistic nonsense. It seemed like too much like blaming Japan for prostitution. It turned out I was wrong.
And it's nothing new, so we can't blame it on President George W. Bush for refusing to sign the Kyoto accord. As I learned in The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci, the great Jesuit missionary/scientist experienced the same thing in the XVIth Century.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
<< Home