Winter has faded from snow to drizzle and in the courtyard at St Peter’s Cathedral the jazz band plays to the stones in the ground and the memories in the air.  This is the kind Read More …

An overgrown spark-plug bucket is covered with a wanna-be earthiness. A messy moss that will take more than a crop of spuds to render it fertile.  The cultural lesson about nature burying all the evidence Read More …

The crisis at the northern Mexican border city of Juarez is sadly much more about the murders of missing women than about immigration.  The news keeps us focused on political failures, on border security, on Read More …

The stained glass filters the light as it breaks across the chancel in the Fraumunster cathedral in Zurich. These are not ordinary stained glass windows, these are windows earmarked by Chagall design similar to the Read More …

As the globe turns, one might wonder why the palette shrinks to fit marketing models and options of choice-reductions.  The resurrection of the turntable may simply be much more than the quality- of-music debates — Read More …

The furrows between the early onions are whitewashed with hail and heavy snowflakes.  The language of winter would chill any spring.  The waiting for sunshine is taking too long so we left.  Yes we hit Read More …

In the sixties the backpacking visitors to Mykonos were rafted, rowed or dumped on Paradise Beach.  We made a return visit to this cultural alcove of free love, free beach, free sharing and even free Read More …

I grew up near the ocean.  The North Sea before school. The Pacific Ocean during school. And on various travels the water’s of the Indian Ocean, the Hong Kong sea, the Red sea, the Atlantic Read More …

The whitewash of Easter is visible year round on Mykonos.  The walls are white, the grout in the walkways is white and the local uniform is white except for Little Venice that is — colour Read More …

Riding in a yellow taxi from the old docks to the city Centre, the driver tried explain his unified God perspective and suggested we consider the possibility that in some Greek Orthodox  circles the ancient Read More …