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It all started about 7 years ago, when after attending a men's ministry seminar at the church, I was "set up" to form and host a men's fellowship group. After a year of wandering in the wild, meeting at cafeteria outdoors, church patio, park gazebo, etc., haphazardly and lackadaisically, I decided to open up my home so to have more regular, permanent-sited get-together every other Saturday morning at my backyard with my brothers in exile.

And I started sending out those reminder emails every other week for the meetings. Being a person who hates receiving machine-generated, lifeless emails myself, I tried to suit up my notices with personal notes and opportune comments, things I found interesting or worth sharing at the time, on top of that boxed announcement of time and place to meet.

People didn't seem to object. As a matter of fact, I soon realized open-letter writings like these could be a good way to keep in touch with people I care to. So I gradually enlarged my mailing list to include friends and family, men and women, old buddies and new acquaintances, cousins in Canada and sister in Taiwan, etc., people who I thought might be interested in what I think or do from time to time, and vice versa, even though we may live far apart or have little chance to meet, in this so-close-yet-so-far digital day and age.

And that's been a span of 6+ years by now. Last week I finally spent some time assembling these past emails, organizing them into chronological order, assigning them subject titles if none were there, and then posted them to a Google blogger account that I had registered long ago but never used. 

Going through these writings, I myself am a little surprised by the variety of things it covered, from spiritual and intellectual musings (holy wholesome, wiggle room), to travel journals (PEACE trips China, trip to northern california), events of my life (father, transition), books I read (wooden, karamazov brothers), things and people I recalled (japan, all my boys), jokes and fun pieces (adam's wish, valentine stories, word play) ... etc. 

So, my friends, if you do like my writings, and like to take a second look at them, or catch up on those "past issues" that passed you by before you were included in my mailing list, then feel free to go to http://cdwong.blogspot.com/ at your leisure, and maybe leave some comments after you finish reading them if you like--that's one benefit blogger site offers, making this a true two-way communication between you and me, and maybe all of us.

Hope you'll enjoy it.

* From the first (shy particles, 7/31/2007) to the last (where the rain stays mainly in the plain, 10/28/2013), the total number of postings comes up to be exact 100, no more, no less, no design. If I put this one up there, it will be Posting #101 ... interesting!