Welcome to Winter, 2020. Events in my home country (USA) have been such a bummer this year, for all the reasons you know. But let […]
November, 2020. Yes, a Room With a View. I live in 10th floor “penthouse’ (top floor of apt. building) in the southern Cairo neighborhood of
In September 2021, we went to Lempuyang, one of the main temples in Bali. I went with new friends, the Umariawans, a Bali family kind
Greek Statue of Hemaphroditus 2d Century BCE – Louvre. Every human being was originally one combined gender —male and female together. This unity was violently
From the Fountain not made by the hands of man, water flows into the Sea of Tranquility in which all human problems dissolve into their
“Ancient Egypt” — the phrase brings up images of sands and swords, swashbuckling Pharaohs and mysterious HUGE buildings. Clearly, the Pharaohs did have an Edifice
Note: the preview photo is a statue in the capital of Bali, Denpasar, commemorating the 1906 ritual suicide, called puputan in Balinese, of the royal
Background info: Bali has thousands of Hindu temples, big and small. Like India, a Bali “temple” does not need to be the structural equivalent of
Angel Vision Zephyr Carlyle Alex’s eyes were closing as he tried to read the familiar text. His eyes popped open up when he heard the
Percy Bysshe Shelley. English Romantic poet whose passion was the pursuit of personal love and social justice. These dual inspirations motivated his early social activism. Later, this