For the longest time I thought that the American Pentagon was unique.  I woke up this morning clearly awakened by a new truth.  The Goryokaku five star fort was built in 1864 in Hakodate Japan Read More …

Sometime (between 4000 and 2000 BCE) in the history of Aomori there is evidence that sedentism set in.  The people started living in clusters of houses, built common meeting places, survived on a balance of Read More …

On the road one could easily misconstrue a 1986 San Francisco group with the nihilist Germanic phrase, katzenjammer.  Speaking either idea on the streets of Sapporo pops up an image of straw cats in Odori Read More …

Harry Belafonte’s, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, wasn’t the first recording of the song.  But it surely was linked in all the reminiscences this past while.  The Dutch have a way of painting the town orange. Read More …

In the traditional sentimental journey along memory lane there are very few canals and fewer draw bridges.  This meandering through the streets, along the canals and on the beaches was more than sentimental — this Read More …

OK the miracle has been debunked.  The current flow and the shapes of the water-foils have made walking on water possible!  Now, that took two thousand years.  However the plea to free Palestine has not Read More …

A Scottish friend has been spotted as he was piped into a celebration gathering!  The other evening I was walking the deck of a ship on the Rhine and I heard the strain of the Read More …

The architecturally astute may note that the title image features gothic arches that tower over a local congregation.  Cathedrals changed denominations and religions throughout their history.  Yet somewhere in their structure (theologically and practically) they Read More …

Leaving the junction of three countries (Driehoek) and moving along the Rhine River it would be simpler to focus on the historical series of castle defenses (a way the governing body exerted power or control Read More …

The wind blows across this sandstorm image and presents the hands-open waiting-women as introduction and background in the Kunsthalle.  The Holder painting is larger than life and it diminishes all who pass by.  The dessert Read More …