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My LinkedIn homepage, where I have uploaded the title story 'how the city farang came to love the forest' as a preview.

It is important that those who murder, or who plot and scheme to murder, know that they will be held accountable. There are plenty more who deserve their day in court at the Hague. We hope that this principle can be furthered, until a time comes when such planners and sowers of death, realise that they will simply not get away with it.

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25923102

Work in progress. Now there is a metaphor for life. Re-writing 'How the City Farang' is proving a pleasure. It is so easy to correct the sloppiness of yester-year. A 'Deer and a Hawk' first re-write, this shall be my very best. Notes after notes after notes, make for good prose.

 I hope that this winter affects you only mildly, in light of what wind and cold and rain can really do.

  I am not a Buddhist, and indeed could be described as a confirmed agnostic, and certainly an agnostic who believes in science. I have however, always been fascinated by stories from religions. Not only that, the great works in architecture and art, from the pyramids to the renaissance, are I feel, worthy as human inspiration, to what thoughts can produce. Supernatural belief is being rightly subsumed by science, which as a belief system has the advantage of offering evidence for its reasoning. I like to think that the best aspects of those ideas which served to light the long and often dark journey of the infant human race, have at least some meaning today, mainly, as what it means to wonder. Imagination, is among our best attributes, and I hope, that we never let that light go out.

 So, I am not a Buddhist but have written a lot about Buddhist people and places, the following link here is of my last work on the subject, an essay concerning the life and times of Sulak Sivaraksa, my friend and mentor. Apart from re-writes of older stories, this is probably my last word on the subject, but never say never. I hope that those of you who borrow or buy this essay for your e-reader will enjoy it.

http://www.amazon.com/Dhammaraja-Danny-Campbell-ebook/dp/B00HUCFXN0

More about writing later. How about a holiday in Bordeaux, France? My wife and I own a town house in central Bordeaux that makes a great city break for the wine connoisseur, gourmet, or even gourmand! With its beautiful 18th century streets and limestone buildings, and the quais on the port of the moon by the Garonne river, there are few more romantic settings for a summer evening supper. After all, Victor Hugo, whose books made Paris and France the romantic darling of the 19th century, was reported to have said of the city;

'Take Antwerp, cross it with Versailles, and then you have, Bordeaux.'  See here for agents links-

http://www.homefromhomeaquitaine.co.uk/Bordeaux_Apartments/Rue_Lachassaigne.html


http://www.french-gite-holidays.com/rue_lachassaigne.htm

A little history. I first started writing on and off at the end of the 20th century. Mostly articles for the International Network of Engaged Buddhist (INEB) periodical publication Seeds of Peace, under the auspices of Sulak Sivaraksa the Thai social critic. My first collection of short stories was named 'How the City Farang Came to Love the Forest and Other Stories' and was published in 2002 by Sulak's Santi Dhamma Pracha publishing house, see link-

https://www.google.fr/search?q=how+the+city+farang+came+to+love+the+forest+danny+campbell&oq=how+the&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0j69i60j69i61j69i59.16583j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

I am currently re-writing these stories with an eye to re-publishing some time soon. There then came my essay 'A Tale About People and a Pipeline' 2003, again by Santi Dhamma Pracha. This deals with my eyewitness account of Sulak Sivaraksa's blockade of the Yadana natural gas pipeline between Myanmar and Thailand in 1998, and the resulting human rights abuse, and damage to pristine wilderness. There are two links here you can look at.

http://www.sulak-sivaraksa.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=191


http://books.google.fr/books/about/A_Tale_about_People_and_a_Pipeline.html?id=8hJutwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

As this may be out of print, I will think about a re-write for it as well. In my next post I shall continue the story of my progress as a writer.

I have recently published a story on Kindle Direct entitled 'A Tale of Aceh', previously published by Suksit Siam. This is a story about the fascinating island of Sumatra, Indonesia, and the northernmost province of Aceh on that island. It is my own lyrical take on the civil war that people there suffered, and, the incredible nature that was rapidly disappearing when I visited many years ago. It is available as an e-book on Amazon.com, at this link-http://www.amazon.co.uk/A-Tale-Aceh-Danny-Campbell-ebook/dp/B00HRA2DI8


Hope you enjoy!

Hello, and welcome to my blog. I intend to use this space to share ideas about writing and life in general. As I am spending a lot of time writing and engaged in other work, my imput may be sporadic, but if anyone get's in touch via this medium, I will do my best to reply.