"They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds."- Dino Christianpolus. I live, like many people in this world, in an insignificant place, a bit of geography once used and now forgotten. When I tell local people the name of my town, they snicker, especially those who reside in the more popular tourist …
Dear Beth, We have a tradition that started when you moved away. Every spring, I post pictures of the trilliums that bloom in my woods for you. I have the white ones and one very large red that you really like. They appear every year at the far corner of my property by the beaver …
This map is courtesy of indiadefencereview.com When India gained its independence from Britain in 1947, a plan was made to make Pakistan an Islamic state and divide Kashmir into two, half Pakistani and half Indian. These two areas are separated by The Line of Control, a heavily militarized unofficial boundary. These divisions brought about a …
I travel to learn about other people in unfamiliar places. I go to listen to their stories and understand. I was raised Catholic and have since left that religion. I don't call myself a Christian but rather a Jesusist because I believe in the doctrine of inclusion and I honor all religions. I still post …
17 days in India, a place filled with thousands and thousand of details, each significant. I had direct experience, I didn't use computers or TV screens to separate me from reality. I saw, heard, and smelled India and it was overwhelming. I'm in The US now, a place of physical order, roads are paved, the …
It was a week and a half after I returned from my 70/7000 trip and I will always remember how sunny that morning was. I walked into the office of my elementary school and saw my colleagues silently huddled around a TV. The images of the burning World Trade Towers were surreal but our feelings …
Try not to be picky. Please don't evaluative every little detail of your trip. Think globally, life is a movie not a snapshot. Over the course of my life, I have come to realize that joy is enormous and being joyless makes us small. Joy is about getting out of ourselves, being with people, trying …
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