Sunday Repost: Five Islands
Portland, Maine. Home, Sweet Home Gulls wake early. And they sound hungry, very hungry, screeching complaints of empty belly. Our bedroom is on a wharf overlooking a working lobster dock and the...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Opium
Perhaps we should consider travel as metaphor? Another travel vignette: A Sadhu, Holy Man of India Dhdhundaly, Rajasthan, India: By mid-morning the village elders in Dhdhundaly were comfortably quite...
View Article“Take this,” he said. I refused.
Mystery Doll of Cusco The roof over my office where I write is being replaced. I’ve noted this word “office” before. Office suggests a place where serious business is conducted. There is little I...
View ArticleTibet
Last week we walked the streets of Prague. Let’s put on our hiking boots this Saturday and head up the Tibetan Plateau. Two young monks at Barcor in Lhasa Yarlung Valley, Tibet Sacred Mountain Lake Yak...
View ArticleSanta Fe
A little closer to home this week, photos (of the artsy-fartsy type) from New Mexico. Lamp, Santa Fe Prairie Farm Plastic Jesus, Blue Sky Door, Taos Farm Panorama A Nod to Ansel These were shot with a...
View ArticlePhoto Saturday: Faces
I started a project a few years ago of photographing the faces of working folks around the world. The project never came to anything, and, in a manner of speaking, remains open-ended. That is, I’ve not...
View ArticleSunday Repost: …the american dog tick…
Yuck. The Tick According to the University of Maine web site, there are three types of ticks found in Maine: the deer tick, the american dog tick and the brown dog tick. I looked it up. I was curious,...
View ArticlePhoto Saturday: Greece, 1978
In praise of Kodachrome! Photos from deep in the archive of my first trip abroad. Men walk past barrels on Greek Isle A concert in ancient arena, Greece View of remote Greek harbor from ruins Corner...
View ArticleThursday 6.5.14
Injured Lucy Lucy and I have resumed our morning walks after several months of doing without. Last Fall, during a walk, she limped out of the woods, her shoulder lacerated, obviously the result of...
View ArticleThursday, 6.12.2014
Tallinn, Estonia. A week ago our bag was stolen in Amsterdam. We were standing outside the city-center train station, foggy after a transatlantic flight, hungry and disoriented. I stood post with our...
View Article4.24.2016
If you look deep enough you might find mixed into that basket of core beliefs you carry around the notion of home, at least that has been my recent experience. Home: a place of retreat, a safe and...
View Article12.25.2016
There was a surprising number of people at the trailhead this Christmas morning. Some of them wished me a Merry Christmas, which I returned. A few simply nodded and smiled. It was a beautiful morning,...
View Article2.11.2017
We’d been camping in the Laguna Mountains for a few days and had the place to ourselves. We had no internet and no cell coverage. Our days were lazy and we filled them with books, walks, and the...
View Article7.23.2017
A Lesson in Three Wishes I learned a few things while living on the road these last fifteen months. They are simple things that I think I’d learned previously but had forgotten. That is one thing...
View ArticleThe Grand Canyon and other philosophies
The Grand Canyon I’ve been engaged the last couple years in correspondence with a young man in prison. He is a family friend who made a bad decision. He has a bent for big ideas so naturally the two...
View ArticleMy Year with Montaigne: Montaigne, the Traveler
“It is not my deeds that I write down; it is myself, it is my essence.” II.6 Imagine: Western Europe, the year is 1580. Plague is rampant; war is ceaseless; roads, such as they are, are not only...
View ArticleMy Year with Montaigne: Montaigne, the Traveler pt II
“Monsieur de Montaigne drank of the said water eleven mornings, nine glasses each for eight days and seven glasses each for three days, and bathed five times. He found the water easy to drink and...
View ArticleMy Year with Montaigne: Montaigne, the Traveler pt III
We glean from studying the travel journals a man who sloughed off his national and cultural trappings with aplomb. He was open minded and interested, willing to go out of his way, sometimes to the...
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