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Spanish translation: AVENTURAS ANDINAS

I’m happy to share that my work with the Spanish translator collaborator in Peru is complete, and the Spanish edition is now available for pre-order on Amazon. There has been great interest from Spanish-speaking friends, so I hope there will be a strong response to this.

 

 

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Spanish Translation on Pre-Order

I'm happy to share that the Spanish edition of Andean Adventures: "Aventuras Andinas" is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08KYMQQ1...

I had the help of translator collaborators in Peru.

Mask Protocol Evasion Puzzles Me

I remain completely puzzled by how much resistance exists to using the face cover or mask in any setting. I also am amazed by how many people seem to think they have the right to use it improperly, like a chin guard, hanging off the nose or perhaps completely off the nose and mouth.  It's really a mystery to me how this has been so polarizing. There are some people who follow the rules inside stores but seem to feel that if they circulate outside in a public area, they can still not worry about the mask.  

I guess it is easy to blame Trump or to blame the Republicans about this civic idiocy.  But it must somehow go beyond that, judging on the people involved and their behavior.  When we hear from respected experts how much of a benefit to curb transmission proper mask usage, social distance and handwashing can mean, how is that something that so many people seem to have a license to ignore? I don't like the mask but it  quickly became second nature.  Now it is a matter of remembering to take it off when I go back in my car.  Surely we are somehow missing some fundamentals in terms of how to re-educate the socially corrosive behavior of mask impunity.  

It makes me think of cigarette smoking. While it took a long time to reach the tipping point, when the weight of public education was placed on the question it became such a social ill and nuisance for people to smoke in a setting where they would inflict it on others.  Some smokers yelled about their rights to smoke, but social pressure became too overwhelming to be ignored. How do we mobilize that now and so much sooner?

Mask Protocol Evasion Puzzles Me

I remain completely puzzled by how much resistance exists to using the face cover or mask in any setting. I also am amazed by how many people seem to think they have the right to use it improperly, like a chin guard, hanging off the nose or perhaps completely off the nose and mouth.  It’s really a mystery to me how this has been so polarizing. There are some people who follow the rules inside stores but seem to feel that if they circulate outside in a public area, they can still not worry about the mask.

I guess it is easy to blame Trump or to blame the Republicans about this civic idiocy.  But it must somehow go beyond that, judging on the people involved and their behavior.  When we hear from respected experts how much of a benefit to curb transmission proper mask usage, social distance and handwashing can mean, how is that something that so many people seem to have a license to ignore? I don’t like the mask but it  quickly became second nature.  Now it is a matter of remembering to take it off when I go back in my car.  Surely we are somehow missing some fundamentals in terms of how to re-educate the socially corrosive behavior of mask impunity.

It makes me think of cigarette smoking. While it took a long time to reach the tipping point, when the weight of public education was placed on the question it became such a social ill and nuisance for people to smoke in a setting where they would inflict it on others.  Some smokers yelled about their rights to smoke, but social pressure became too overwhelming to be ignored. How do we mobilize that now and so much sooner?

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Sweet reminders of a Kindness

I received one of the dearest gifts yesterday. In a prearranged zoom call with a former colleague who I hadn't seen in 15 years, my caller proceeded to surprise me by confessing how grateful she had been with an impromptu coaching and guidance session we had had over a Friday afternoon.  We talked about her work during the previous week, and I offered a number of suggestions over what might be next steps to take. I offered to open a few doors and make available some pilot resources for her project initiative.  Little did I know that many doors and opportunities opened from there on for my colleague, and she had privately credited me all these years with helping to support some important career turns and decisions.  She told me how grateful she had been for the time I had made available to her 15 years ago, and by the proactive and guided suggestions I had offered.  I had had no idea.  She is an accomplished expert and professional in her field, with whom I have had very limited subsequent contact with her by email and social media.  And yet she generously credited me for what I had done to move her project and others along.  It was so moving and sweet.  I felt it was undeserved, and about a special moment that I can barely remember now, but apparently had made such an impression on my former colleague. 

I don't know about you, but the sad reality is that I rarely get thanks like that in real time not to mention after so many years.  It seems to me the culture of appreciation and thanks has been so diminished for years.  With some exceptions, people don't seem to go out of their way to offer thanks like that.  This seems especially so within the Federal government bureaucracy.  Of course, from my point of view, I'm not usually thinking about the thanks or the gratitude since that isn't the motivation at all for wanting to help others and do the right thing.  Which makes it so powerful to be stopped by someone and receive the gift of such heartfelt and sincere thanks.  It touches us and enlarges our spirit, both the giver and the receiver.  

It made my day and week even, and perhaps is almost an antidote to all the other evil swirling around in the ether these days.  

Sweet Reminders of a Kindness

I received one of the dearest gifts yesterday. In a prearranged zoom call with a former colleague who I hadn’t seen in 15 years, my caller proceeded to surprise me by confessing how grateful she had been with an impromptu coaching and guidance session we had had over a Friday afternoon.  We talked about her work during the previous week, and I offered a number of suggestions over what might be next steps to take. I offered to open a few doors and make available some pilot resources for her project initiative.  Little did I know that many doors and opportunities opened from there on for my colleague, and she had privately credited me all these years with helping to support some important career turns and decisions.  She told me how grateful she had been for the time I had made available to her 15 years ago, and by the proactive and guided suggestions I had offered.  I had had no idea.  She is an accomplished expert and professional in her field, with whom I have had very limited subsequent contact with her by email and social media.  And yet she generously credited me for what I had done to move her project and others along.  It was so moving and sweet.  I felt it was undeserved, and about a special moment that I can barely remember now, but apparently had made such an impression on my former colleague.

I don’t know about you, but the sad reality is that I rarely get thanks like that in real time not to mention after so many years.  It seems to me the culture of appreciation and thanks has been so diminished for years.  With some exceptions, people don’t seem to go out of their way to offer thanks like that.  This seems especially so within the Federal government bureaucracy.  Of course, from my point of view, I’m not usually thinking about the thanks or the gratitude since that isn’t the motivation at all for wanting to help others and do the right thing.  Which makes it so powerful to be stopped by someone and receive the gift of such heartfelt and sincere thanks.  It touches us and enlarges our spirit, both the giver and the receiver.

It made my day and week even, and perhaps is almost an antidote to all the other evil swirling around in the ether these days.

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Reader feedback

I’ve been enjoying some messages from different readers in the last couple days. One reader said to me, “Don’t change a thing in the book! I loved it. I especially enjoyed the stories of the Bolivia chapter.”
Another reader just wrote me, “I just finished chapter 3. I found so many interesting parallels with what you faced in your early life and what I went through. I am definitely reading on now.”
It’s always gratifying to hear back from readers but especially when the comments are so appreciative.
There are about 10 reviews already up on Amazon, and I'm also appreciative of what readers have shared there. I look forward to dialogue and exchange here on Goodreads as well as on my website
https://enableennoble.net

Welcome to diverse readers

I confess that I have not really kept a blog in the past, so as the number of readers who come here slowly grow I hope to also advance in my abilities to share useful news.

Last week I had a Zoom interview with Poderhispano TV. They broadcast it on Facebook Live, a new experience for me. This is an interesting foray for me into the Spanish speaking market. I took questions about my new book from journalist Roxana Cedeño and journalist-writer Roberto Bustamente. Roxana is from Ecuador. Roberto is from Peru. Both countries are of course highlighted in ANDEAN ADVENTURES.

I welcome comments from readers who wish to let me know how relevant the anecdotes and stories I share in ANDEAN ADVENTURES are to their life experiences and stories.

A Firehose and a Trap door

I am sure I am like many Americans who slept poorly last night. I was disgusted at the bad behavior and disruptive chaos by the incumbent at the debate. I could not understand Chris Wallace at times seeking to placate the berserker on stage. Why wasn’t there a kill switch for that microphone? Why wasn’t there a kill switch to stop any one from blatant rule breaking on stage. I was amused when former Republican Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC finally echoed my own question in her post debate analysis.

I got greater satisfaction when former Republican Steve Schmidt commented later that beyond a kill switch there should be in the future a firehose to douse anyone who became a Human Torch again, trying to flame everyone around them. But the amusement at the idea of both a kill switch, a firehose, and perhaps even a trap door did little in the end to really assuage my emotional revulsion and agitation last night, delaying my slumbers. What possible satisfaction, what possible benefit could be imagined by that berserker in fueling such reaction from surely many Americans. It remains just one of the many many mysteries that abound over this horrid campaign.

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Translations

I’m moving forward with the Spanish translation of this book, given the important potential readership among Latin American friends, associates and customers. I hope to publish it in October. Also considering the suggestions of a friend about Chinese as a possible translation. No idea what the cost might be but I’d like to find a way to penetrate that market. Any thoughts or ideas?

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