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Greetings,

Middle Kingdom #43 is up for your listening and dancing pleasure. It is an all-too-brief incomplete flashback on China. There will be more to come as I sift through Memory's repository story looking for non-renewable natural resources.

July '07 image gallery contains my final China photographic vision. I spent a day wandering around twin pagodas famous during Marco Polo's time in the city, and a temple where the wooden women statues were discovered way back when and featured here. They were still there, no worse for the wear and tear. Delightful, amazing faces.

Did we say the salmon is delicious in Anatolia? Did we say many natives here don't like the place (dry, hot, boring) which explains why everyone left for the Mediterranean on their annual August holiday? Did we say there is a city wide water shortage - 2 days on - 2 days off? Probably.

One pleasant reality here, among many, is having immediate access to "Journeys" without having to use a proxy as was the case in China where we were blocked. They have 50,000 internet cops patrolling the web in China which explains why censorship and government control is alive and well. It's a job.

It was a small inconvenience considering I was able to produce and publish words, images and podcasts from a beautiful, strange, chaotic country. And now we are here.

Peace.