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  Doug “Ten” Rose in Kathmandu Nepal About the Author Doug “Ten” Rose may be the biggest smartass as well as one of the most entertaining survivors of the hitchhiking adventurers that used to cover America’s highways. He is the author of the books Fearless Puppy on American Road and Reincarnation Through Common Sense, has survived heroin addiction and death, and is a graduate of over a hundred thousand miles of travel without ever driving a car, owning a phone, or having a bank account. Hello from the Himalayas!   I hope you are happy, healthy, and enjoying the winter. Things are just beginning to possibly change for the better. There are logical reasons to think that 2021 will be a better year than 2020 was and, in a few months, Spring and the new life it brings may witness some progress in the human condition. From out here, it looks like we will have to remember at least  two  things in order to have any chance of that progress taking hold. 1.  Staying active...

Boudha Stupa | Kathmandu Nepal T here is a popular expression in Black America that goes, “Black don’t crack.” The concept, of course, is that after suffering centuries of every imaginable brutal abuse, in a country they physically built but were never allowed to feel at home in, Black folks as a unit has developed an unbreakable resiliency. The great comedienne Wanda Sykes recently produc e d a line that gave us a laugh but is actually too true to be called a joke. Speaking of the president who has fanned the flames of race-related tragedies and so many other American disasters during the past few years, she said, “I can’t believe this motherfucker cracked black! That’s not supposed to happen! He actually cracked black!” The situation in Nepal is at least as bad, economically, and medically, as it is everywhere else. But  Stupaville still don’t crack ! This roughly ten square block neighborhood that I live in contains at least five large monasteries housing well over a thousand mo...

  Reincarnation Through Common Sense This short excerpt is from the chapter  “How to Get Your Prayers Answered”  in the book Reincarnation Through Common Sense I feel a little uppity and out of place entitling a chapter “How to Get Your Prayers Answered.” Everyone who has ever lived has asked this question at least once. It is unlikely that a person like myself could find any important information about getting prayers answered while rooting around through decades of deep intoxication and a few layers of insanity — and rarely saying a conventional prayer or even believing in the concept. It see m s I may have gotten lucky. There are three steps to getting your prayers answered. They are: Step 1 Set your hope, wish, prayer, aspiration, desired intent exactly where you want it, worded so that it is short, focused, and sticks to basics. If your wish includes doing harm or is of no benefit to others, restructure it. For a first step example, “I hope that nasty bastard dies pa...