by svsauthor | Jan 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
The planned withdrawal of army personnel from Kinmen carried both positive and negative implications. On the plus side, martial law was being lifted. The local civilian population would have personal freedoms that they hadn’t experienced since the Communists expelled...
by svsauthor | Dec 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Even though my assignment in Kinmen was to assess the tourism potential of its natural areas, I could not help but be drawn in by the islands’ peculiar military features. In the previous blog, I mentioned several of the underground facilities – a warren of...
by svsauthor | Dec 22, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
In 1993, I joined a group of Taiwanese academics on a trip to the twin islands of Kinmen. One of our tasks was to make semi-formal presentations to a group of local residents to assure them that the economy of Kinmen would not collapse once most of the islands’...
by svsauthor | Dec 12, 2019 | philosophy, Uncategorized
One day early in my first of two stints living in Taiwan, I was standing on a corner waiting for the light to change. A woman was also standing there. She turned to me and, in English, asked, “What are you doing here?” We both were walking from the campus of National...
by svsauthor | Dec 9, 2019 | Environmental philosophy, philosophy, Uncategorized
Even though I sometimes lie motionless in a meadow long enough for the creatures of the meadow to forget I am there, my two most memorable moments in meadows were times when I was very much noticed. Both events were alongside my first wife Lisa. The first was on our...
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