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Check out the photo galleries of backpacking Oregon's 3 Sisters Wilderness, July 2014
Comics
In Between the Lines no. 8 is finally under way!!! Despite what seemed like an eternal wait, the comic people's good sense finally prevailed.
Check back now and then to see how they are doing...
It is currently on page 5
Travel
Photo galleries: Oregon's 3 Sisters Wilderness, Norway's rugged Lofoten Islands, July 2010, and Big Sur's Ventana Wilderness in Spring, 2006,taken during an 8 day backpacking trip.
Philosophy
New! A complete version of the I Ching, including an I Ching hexagram generator and how-to. The tool creates the hexagrams and changing lines based on your reading result numbers, and the how-to shows you how to do the reading.
Upgrade: James Legge's Chuang Tzu. Added Chinese text under main chapter text!
However you found your way here, we're glad you came. Check out the new In Between the Lines No. 8 currently under way, much to the comic girl's relief. The panels will be made in living color as they are put up, no waiting for the colorized version.
Thanks to Sonia Cabestany Montardit for creating the animation of the comic people.
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