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Choose Wisely

In my hand is a news clipping from the Filipino Island of Mindoro. It is hot and muggy and there is a view nearby of the colorful waters and a reef filled coastline but my mind keeps drifting off to a certain range of mountains on the mainland of Asia. I do not read the horoscope columns of local newspapers, let alone their Asian counterparts with the misprinted title "You born today:" But it is my birthday and a new acquaintance read it to me for laughs.

You born today: Oct. 11th You have a marvelous imagination. Personally you're charming and unusually tolerant of others. You're definitely easy going. Because of these positive qualities, people like and respect you. You often are involved in group activities, many of which might be humanitarian causes. You like working with others. A major choice will present itself to you in the year ahead. Choose wisely.

It seems that enough flattery can make anyone think that you are talking about them, hence the success of such columns. But the last two lines haunt me. Even if just by coincidence they lead my mind back towards my last few weeks in the Himalayas. The last several months have been consumed with the question, "After Daragaon where next?"