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We planned to drive the remaining width of Iowa and stop in Davenport and ride the bikes along the other big river, the Mississippi, for a spell. We were 1,123 miles from home, over 17 hours driving time. Three driving days, I reckoned, since I was a’ reckoning. I had been in ...
Dozens died within weeks in the quarries of Buchenwald and then on May 22, the remaining 340 were sent south to Mauthausen concentration camp, which was 21 miles from the castle at Hartheim, located in Alkoven (near Linz), Austria. In 1940 the castle had been turned into a killing centre...
The reward for remaining civilized throughout this week would be another one together at a villa in Provence, rumored to be large enough to hide from each other if necessary. We assembled in the late afternoon at the dock along the Grand Basin in Castelnaudary to complete some paperwork with...
“Millennium Mambo” at last and was actually less enthusiastic about them compared to many others, but I still could appreciate Hou’s cinematic mastery nonetheless. While I have considered revisiting “Three Times” (2005) for more appreciation, I fondly remember those calm but lovely moments ...
After a calm start to get out of the harbor, Skipper Jamie asked, “do you feel good?” and then picked up speed to the James Brown tune of the same name. We rode past beautiful rock formations and waterfalls. Photo ©Jean Janssen. Salmon fish farm in the fjord, Stavanger, Norway...
Used more than two hundred times in the Bible, the word shalom (meaning peace or tranquility) was a word intentionally employed to greet others. In the story of the prodigal son we learn ‘While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion for him, and ran and...
‘Que? interrupted Mouney’; I mean, she continued, ‘He might be said to allude when talking to someone without modesty and to be explicit when talking to someone with modesty’: take the word bud’ for example – the full blooded word for the act in his words, on whom be peace, ...
Hopkins’ version of the character also feels constantly torn, despite his calm and personable demeanor. He seems in constant, silent anguish over his little corner of history not being widely known — though in making it known, he knows he runs the risk of making it about himself. This is...
I found it planted somewhere deep within, unchanging and unfailing as it searches out all heartbreak, joy, pain, and love – breathing through all seasons of my life and remaining to my very last. Nothing will ever be able to separate me from it – not death or life, not the present ...