Yasothon
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Return to Yasothon
All of my 2003-2004 Baha’i youth year of service was to be in Macau, China but visa problems eventually led the government of that city to kick me out. While on exile in mainland China I made arrangements to continue volunteering with the Thai Baha’i community. I was sent to a small town in the…
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My ridiculous 2004 fasting article
The Baha’i world is now on day twelve of the nineteen day fast. The one nineteenth of the year when we abstain from food and liquids while the sun is up. The other eighteen nineteenths are known to me as my love affair with lunch, arguably one of the three most important meals of the…
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One Nineteenth
The chilly mornings and nights and windy days over here have made way for unbearable heat. That must signal that one nineteenth of the year in which Baha’i Bloggers and Baha’is alike are abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sundown has started. Not like the fast my Ethiopian Orthodox roommates do for two…
Samuel Benoit 