Agatha Christie’s Mystery, “Appointment with Death,” Never Solved the Greater Mystery of Petra
Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death is a 1938 novel and play that features the Nabataean city of Petra, in the country of Jordan, as a main setting. “Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs...
Life Finds a Way A tour of Bangkok, adaptability and ingenuity
We published another pictorial featuring innovation despite dire circumstances in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, following the Indian Ocean tsunami. This tour of Bangkok, Thailand, is not post-anything, it’s just the regular life of its everyday occupants, rich and poor. But...
Necessity Fosters Ingenuity The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 was a huge calamity affecting millions but it also produced examples of human ingenuity under any conditions. Here is one example.
On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami washed around the land masses surrounding the Indian Ocean. The US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that in Indonesia’s Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet (51...
Natural Marvels A winter's day. Regardless of season, nature is always wondrous. Sometimes pictures say more than one could ever hope to convey with words.
Lies Told With Truth Truth, not merely mockery of truth, means honoring the intention of what is being said as well as accurately reporting what is being communicated.
During my wanderings in many countries, including several Near East, Middle East and Far East countries, I have participated in a plethora of conversations, some with high level executives and government appointees, many more with ordinary people, on the street, in...
Light. Revealing. Inspiring. Alive.
Early morning in the late fall, Cody, Wyoming Evening sun, near Bedford, Pennsylvania Under the flight path, Pittsburgh Airport A fall sunset in the Utah Rockies, near Park City The sun sets on downtown Dubai A junk yard in Livingston, Montana The High Uintas Insects...
The Snows of Kilimanjaro Are Diminishing But the long walk, minus adequate oxygen at nearly 20,000 feet, is filled with diverse encounters that enrich one's perspectives on life itself.
Poli, poli, say the guides, constantly, slowly, slowly, you can make it to the top if you climb slowly and let your body adjust without excessive demands. It’s a six day walk up, and a one day, rapid descent. School children are always ready to show their smiles and...
Impressions of Dawn at Flinders in the Bass Strait | Down Under the Down Under In the stillness of dawn, Flinders Point, Australia, which juts out into Bass Strait, bordering on the Southern Ocean. Only the island of Tasmania lies between Flinders and Antarctica.
What a Child of the 50’s and 60’s Has Learned About “Freedom in Christ.” How I learned to overcome the chains of daily life.
Life is tense and intense in many ways. There are numerous freedom movements, but there is only one unlimited, one perfect freedom. Dave Borchers says that he found peace and freedom in the midst of life’s turmoils when he accepted that it was Jesus Christ who...
