2019
Member of NECHUNG DHARMAPALA TIBETAN BUDDHIST CENTER in Los Angeles. www.nechungla.org
AND ICT (International Campaign for Tibet), Washington DC. www.savetibet.org
I Sponsor a Tibetan Student to attend college in Tibet to become a teacher and trilingual translator of Tibetan literature.
THIS SACRED JOURNEY: On Death & Dying with Pema Chödrön, Course Series, online.
MINDFUL END OF LIFE: Online series course through Zenhospice.org. 
2018
Buddhism Through its Scriptures, Course Series, Harvard University, online.
ORIENTAL BELIEFS: Between Reason and Traditions, Course Series, University of Leuven, Belgium, online.
MONTANA Visit for the SUMMER SOLSTICE & Hiking in the CRAZY MOUNTAIN RANGE
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January: PALM SPRINGS, CA -- A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE WORLD 
2017
An online 10-part course with Dr Robert Thurman of Columbia University/Wisdom Academy on the:
HISTORY OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM: Sutra and Tantra: The Profound and the Miraculous
July: Waterskiing on LAKE ARROWHEAD, CA
March: Working with HABITAT FOR HUMANITY in Los Angeles, CA
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2016
October: Climbing up Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
Before dawn, I departed from my unheated tent cabin in 25 degrees to begin the 14-hour day of a 18-mile r/t trek up 5000 feet, including 1000 carved-stone steps, to the last point...
where I then climbed up a further 400 feet on a 56-degree pitch along the granite rock face by pulling oneself up via the cable line to the top at 9000 feet. 
The Cables at Half Dome 
WITH A BREATHTAKING VIEW AT THE TOP!
AND I KIND OF MADE IT WITH ALL MY BODY PARTS INTACT!
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August: PERSEID METEOR SHOWER 42 Meteorites counted!
and HIKING to the top of MT PIÑOS at 9,000 feet along the California scarp of the San Andreas Fault!
Atop Mt Pinos
The Catepillar Swaggar