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 …

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 …