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peace corps kyrgyzstan peace corps kyrgyzstan sunday october 15 2006 home again on friday the 13th of october 2006 i returned safely to the twin cities i hope to post some last photos a couple of audio tracks and to write a final entry or two wrapping up my peace corps experience in kyrgyzstan but for now i am going to order a pizza and watch sunday nfl football signing off larry posted by letweed at 9 31 am 2 comments thursday august 17 2006 suleyman mountain sunrise young man training atop mount suleyman before a rising sun osh kyrgyzstan aug 13th 2006 posted by letweed at 1 12 am 1 comments sunday august 13 2006 battling the sun august 13th 2006 mount suleyman osh kyrgyzstan posted by letweed at 4 03 am 0 comments saturday august 12 2006 dawn of osh taken august 10 2006 people always ask me why i get up so early in the morning this is my answer note the photo of the moon below was taken just a few minutes before this one posted by letweed at 1 12 am 0 comments as the rising august sun burns from the east the evening s cooler counterpoint seeks shelter behind mount suleyman posted by letweed at 1 09 am 1 comments mount suleyman osh this monolith sits prominently at the peak of suleyman too too means mountain i climb up here a few times each week in the early morning and read when the sun rises the heat kicks up to about 105 degrees fahrenheit posted by letweed at 1 05 am 0 comments monday august 07 2006 the weeping man the man was half naked his bronze chest streaked with drying mud ayeeeeeeeeeeeee he screamed throwing his arms in the air i don t want this i don t want it he collapsed in a heap folding awkwardly upon himself like some abandoned puppet i watched him from my balcony as a theatre goer might watch a thespian then the reality of it of him needled its way into my emotional fabric i looked east down the long front side of my apartment building and saw heads emerging from windows and other beings stepping onto terraces to stare at this man wrapped in terror and pain and sadness his crumpled form sat below me perhaps ten feet away and i could see his back swell and deflate under his breath a stillness invaded the courtyard and a silence crept out of the madness of the world and appeared to be moving toward him hunting for him he wailed and the guttural inchoate sounds that came out of him seemed dredged up from some darker primordial day i shuddered but continued watching he breathed sucking air over his teeth and again let out that aborted primeval noise he drew in another breath and again returned his torment to the world slowly out of this repetition a rhythm was born and these methodic sobs crashed forth like great waves tugged from the sea by the moon it seemed he cried for all of us and tethered his tears to our souls through the enchanting sound of that sad mantra i sighed deeply and withdrew but i will never forget the weeping man posted by letweed at 12 32 am 1 comments friday july 28 2006 lessons learned in kyrgyzstan come with me he said and put his arm around my shoulder we walked outside onto the porch and into the fresh air then down the stairs and into the flower garden in the distance i saw a group of children playing soccer and others completing their yard work the grounds of the orphanage included stables a few acres of farmland a pig pen and dozens of caged bunnies you see he said i used to get drunk every night and chase women i lived most of my life like that one day i asked myself stephan what have you done with your life what do you have to show for yourself and the answer was nothing he leaned over and stuck his nose in the white blossoms of a rose and inhaled he raised his head and we continued strolling at that point in my life i already had a fairly successful business but i realized that didn t matter i looked around and saw all of these children on the streets abandoned and begging and i said there s something i can do several of the children spotted stephan outside and began shouting pappa pappa a little sandy haired girl with wide eyes glowing above her smile sprinted into stephan s arms he lifted her up and looked at me now i have twenty one children that all call me pappa and everything i do i do for them i took another look around the orphanage and felt as though i was in the center of big family stephan knelt and set the little girl back down and looked up into my eyes life should be about love posted by letweed at 7 30 pm 2 comments thursday july 27 2006 veteran aksakal respectful term for elderly kyrgyz men photo taken in osh by larry tweed jr aka my father posted by letweed at 5 21 am 0 comments about about me name letweed view my complete profile links google news edit me edit me previous home again suleyman mountain sunrise battling the sun august 13th 2006 mount suleyma dawn of osh taken august 10 2006 people alway as the rising august sun burns from the east the mount suleyman osh this monolith sits prominent the weeping man lessons learned in 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