We can never really know what the universe has in store for us, but we can affect what happens by our thoughts, our feelings, and our resistance. And despite our best intentions, sometimes a chance encounter occurs that is so unexpected but changes everything, or a person you meet in passing affects the rest of your life... Read more…
Further Thoughts on The End of the World
I hadn’t thought the world would end, not really, but the recent school massacre in Newtown back home made me wonder if it might have gone mad. Now I suddenly felt so lucky to be alive, so happy to be in this crazy, wonderful city where I had drunk tea in Tahrir Square not two weeks earlier, so glad to be graced with this intrepid band of fearless travelers who saw what the news said and came to Egypt anyway. Read more…
He was a young fellow, Scots as I suspected, and he was kind and polite and told us in no uncertain terms that if we attempted to breach the fence he would have to shoot us. “Just in... Read more…
Sea Turtle Rescue at the Casa Magna
His window is very narrow, just three hours, so the first thing he does is sweep the beach looking for signs of the wavy flat tracks the turtle flippers make as they move away from the surf and towards their urgent business. Once the turtles dig their pits and lay, which can take an hour or more, they sweep sand across the hole until their eggs are buried in a foot of fine blond sand, then lumber back towards to ocean to hope their progeny survives. The biologist, clock ticking, is just Read more…
2012 is the year to go to Egypt. Go to Egypt NOW!
My subject line is a little adamant, I know. Perhaps a little militant, which is ironic since it's mostly the Egyptian military causing so much of the unrest in Egypt… Read more…