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Month: June, 2008

comme l’oiseau

30 June, 2008 (12:00) | Antiques

Like the Bird
When things happen that are out of my control, I try to keep control of my own thoughts. I like to view those things from a bird’s perspective.They can always see more than we can becausethey leave the nest and fly above it all.They see the big picture, which is sometimesnot evident to [...]

On the Ghats. Pushkar. Rajasthan

30 June, 2008 (08:05) | India, Travel

I couldn’t resist posting an image in memory of one of my favorite images made in India. Waiting on the Ghats in beautiful Pushkar.I must be getting old !!

¡Podemos!

29 June, 2008 (17:40) | Spain, Travel

photo from 20 Minutos
All of Spain has a date with history.
So reads the headline at Yahoo.es sports today.
And at 20 Minutos?
Only 4 hours left…
At 8:45 tonight, Spain, yes that Spain of the inexplicable if endearing insecurity complex, plays Germany in the finals of the EuroCup. That’s futbol, americans.
The last time Spain won the EuroCup, [...]

Just walk east

29 June, 2008 (14:31) | Spain, Travel

Ermita de Santa Ágata, ArrésAs you’ve read by now, I just spent 17 days volunteering as a hospitalera in the pilgrim’s albergue in Arrés, a town of 15 inhabitants lying along the Aragonese stretch of the Camino de Santiago.
With Ferran, my charming Tarragonese partner, I welcomed pilgrims stopping for a warm word and a cold [...]

No te salves

29 June, 2008 (13:01) | Spain, Travel

One day, very early in my 17 day stay in Arrés, a Spanish pilgrim slammed her notebook down on the table in front of me, flipped forward a few pages, and, looking me straight in the eyes, gave me a direct order.
“Read this.”
Next morning before heading back to the Camino, she tore it from her [...]