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		<title>4th baha&#8217;i national convention, vietnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Bahá&#8217;ís of Vietnam have just finished electing their new Spiritual Assembly at the National Convention in Phan Thiet, in the southern province of Binh Thuan. Quynh, Nu and Lam were there, along with 300 other Bahá&#8217;í friends. Quynh and Lam travelled on the overnight train from Da Nang, and friends came from as far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>goggling google goggles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t often get excited about mobile apps (heck, I haven&#8217;t even downloaded Angry Birds yet) but as far as I&#8217;m concerned, this one is the best thing since sliced bread: Google Goggles, part of the official Google app. It&#8217;s a piece of image recognition software that uses pictures you take with your mobile camera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>grief and the value of community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the fifth in a series on Vietnamese customs relating to death, from a personal and a Baha’i perspective. It&#8217;s been several months since Quynh&#8217;s father Hai passed away, and the one hundred days—the &#8220;tốt khốc&#8221; (&#8220;end of tears&#8221;), marking a resumption of &#8220;normal&#8221; life after a loved one&#8217;s passing—have elapsed long since. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>heheh slight delay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ok, so I said the last post on &#8220;Death and Life in Vietnam&#8221; would be up before the new year, but I&#8217;ve gotten a little sidetracked—not in the least by the arrival of the newest letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Conference of the Counsellors, which, along with the Ridván Message of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>say a little prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the fourth in a series on Vietnamese customs relating to death, from a personal and a Baha’i perspective. On these, the coldest winter mornings when the roads are covered in snow and ice, I roll groggily out of my bed to get ready for work. Shower, brush teeth, shave. Get dressed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the life of a vietnamese son-in-law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the third in a series on Vietnamese customs relating to death, from a personal and a Baha’i perspective. Apart from the family memorial gatherings and the weekly devotional gatherings for Quynh&#8217;s father Hai, my time in Vietnam was rather quiet and uneventful. It rained heavily for a good part of my stay, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>taking care of the shrine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the second in a series on Vietnamese customs relating to death, from a personal and a Baha’i perspective. The gesture of offering incense is omnipresent throughout Asia, it seems. China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, India—anyone who&#8217;s Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Shinto—even some types of Christian—knows what it means to offer incense. &#8220;In North America, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>travelling between life and death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the first in a series on Vietnamese customs relating to death, from a personal and a Baha’i perspective. Arriving in Da Nang on September 6th, i was just about two weeks too late to say goodbye to my father-in-law. I had only a vague idea of what had happened, pieced together from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>death and life in vietnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[my recent trip to Vietnam to visit family after my father-in-law&#8217;s passing afforded me a lot of time to think. Even while I was still there, I knew I wanted to share with the world reflections on the experience of losing a loved one across cultures, from a personal and a Baha&#8217;i perspective. as it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>baha&#8217;i centre in vanier newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via @DASLucas on twitter, here&#8217;s the text of a nice little article about the Ottawa Baha&#8217;i Centre written by Ruby Pratka in a local newspaper, Perspectives Vanier (see the original front-page article in the PDF version of the paper). It begins by mentioning the Centre, which is located at the edge of Ottawa&#8217;s east-central Vanier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3rd baha&#8217;i national convention, vietnam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little behind, but as I mentioned a little while back, here&#8217;s an English translation of a Vietnamese news article on the third National Baha&#8217;i Convention in Can Tho, Vietnam, on May 2, 2010. I&#8217;ve added my own explanatory footnotes below. The article is a little off on a few facts, but overall it&#8217;s pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>though your heart is breaking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[traumatic things happen sometimes. shocking, distressing, heartbreaking and life-changing things. Quynh&#8217;s dear father, a humble, steadfast believer who tirelessly served the Cause of Baha&#8217;u'llah in Vietnam for forty years, passed away at the end of August. it was an accident; no warning, nothing. the family was devastated, and remains so, although with around six weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wedding preparations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize I&#8217;ve been pretty lax at blogging during the past little while; I blame the fact that so many eventful things have happened in that time. perhaps the most significant of these was my wedding—followers of this blog will remember that Quynh and I got engaged during my first trip to Vietnam; you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy, uh, belated Canada Day &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy, uh, belated Canada Day and non-belated 4th of July! share this page! »]]></description>
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		<title>RT @iranbahai 4th court date s&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RT @iranbahai 4th court date set on #12June for 7 #Bahai leaders in Evin prison http://bit.ly/9IllJt #Bahairights #iranelection share this page! »]]></description>
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