nano encounters

Here we are in Kemer in Southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean Sea with few clothes left to wear.  So, what is the laundry plan? Well, the hotel provides a service, but it is about €5 per t-shirt, €8 per pair of pants, and so on.  Our total laundry bill could be about €100, which sounds like a waste […]

Here I am, sitting at a 5 star hotel somewhere in the Middle East. I would rather not specify my GPS co-ordinates. Just imagine a large lobby covered with a light-colored marble floor, bright carpets thrown at right-angles, and huge chandeliers hanging from the ceiling over colorful furniture. Upright on a piece of colorful furniture […]

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves – Confucius

Attended the Los Altos Rotary Art Show this Sunday. Always a wonderful feeling meeting artists, seeing their creativity, and chatting with them about how and what they do. It soothes the soul. One artist I met only works with colored pencils. Her drawings are as close to real life as it gets. I couldn’t stop […]

Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!  Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of Omar Khayyam which rotates in my head.

Today I saw a tree in pain.  At first I thought her bark had shed and attributed it to the weather and normal cycle of tree life.  Then I stepped in closer and observed several layers of her bark removed.  Ripped out and thrown on the ground beside her.  This eucalyptus tree’s inner light colored trunk was […]