Amber Park (Bitnah Bahk) is the well-loved and indefatigable manager and a teacher at Toss English, Osan, in South Korea. She is also the bread-winner in a family of four. To boot, Amber is a talented photographer, artist, and speaker of English as a second language.
I went to see her last night as she was winding down her work-day. She was busy editing an ad for the campus, as well as correcting the errors in an online audio-education program that a departing teacher had made.
When she was finally ready to leave, at about ten-thirty PM, she went into the teacher’s room and turned off computers and the copy-machine, and tidied the room (work the teachers should have done). I said, “They leave these things for you to do?”, to which she replied, ‘Always.’ Amber cares about work, her family, her friends, and a host of other issues, with all her heart.
Amber is a perfectionist. She does everything in the spirit of responsibility, not really personal pride, so much (in fact, I can hardly detect this addictive emotion in her).
One of her concerns is animals. She nursed a sick cat I had given her to excellent health, spends enormous amounts of money on the sweet pet, and still has time to care about strays.
Regardless of the time or the weather, she will stop en route to wherever she is going, and investigate a homeless animal, and then worry over its welfare when we finally depart.
I shall report more on Amber’s (and my) adventures helping animals in Korea, in the future. For now, I will leave this link to a site that is dedicated to the same honorable task; rescuing our furry friends that are caught with little to scavenge in this ever-industrializing and developing world;
http://www.koreananimals.org/index.htm
Love, Peace, and Joy,
Carlo
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I was born in Brooklyn, in the middle of the NASA Gemini space Program era--which was on course for the Apollo program, aiming to land men on the moon. I watched Neil Armstrong make humanity's first step on the lunar surface. The space program left a lasting effect on me and inspired life-long interest and passion in me.
I was born a little more than 2 years after President John Kennedy was assassinated and a few years before Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. It was a time of tumult, but better manners, a gentler approach to one another (despite the prejudice being worked on by progressives-) little political correctness, no cancel culture and thicker skin & more opportunity for laughs, a time of fantastic television, austere and fact-based news delivered with brevity and sobriety and much superlatively stylish design. It was the beginning of Star Trek, Star Wars, and a few years on, personal computers, digital watches, hand-held electronic games and movies were still in theaters--not on our TVs--unless they were a little old. People paid more attention to books, from where trust is built with credibility we intrinsically see, competency earned and reflected and facts & expertise. One reason I am not apt to dabble in irrational conspiracy theories is I made many a trek to the local library, to read about stars, planets and astronauts, and to the local bookstore--no longer there--to find my favorite science fiction novels--to either read, or simply marvel at their covers, by Boris Valejo and Frank Frazetta--inspirations that would fuel my later entry into the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
I grew up in Long Island, worked and was educated there until I discovered New York City, then it was on to Boulder Colorado, The Mojave Desert, South Korea and now Japan. I have visited Mongolia, the Philippines, and England and hope to see the rest of the world--and maybe even beyond it.
I teach English as a Second Language, practice secular Buddhism and pay attention to philosophy, astronomy, spaceflight, aviation and human & species rights. I make art, poems and photography--and real friends, wherever I go--when I can.
Maybe our paths will cross; until then, enjoy my writing and pictures, and send me a note. Maybe we can have a cup of coffee someday, somewhere.
Thank you for reading.
I wish you love, peace, joy and enlightenment--sincerely--because you are sentient, and you suffer, too.
Carl Atteniese
Tokyo
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