Five weeks, five bridges, and one lesson: bridges can only bear witness. They cannot compromise, cannot learn, cannot give something up for the sake of connection. Only we can do that. The final part of a series on bridges, on Election Day.
Five weeks, five bridges, and one lesson: bridges can only bear witness. They cannot compromise, cannot learn, cannot give something up for the sake of connection. Only we can do that. The final part of a series on bridges, on Election Day.
From Andrić’s bridge at Višegrad - which has endured centuries of human inhumanity - to one of the deepest canyons in Europe where an engineer broke his own bridge to protect the people it connected. Part IV of my five-part series on bridges.
In July 1995, more than 8,000 people were murdered in and around Srebrenica, a genocide like nothing Europe had seen since World War II. Ryrie and I walked the rows of tombstones in Potočari, passed shelled and abandoned Bosniak homes in Srebrenica, and amidst the darkness found a family and a glimmer of hope.
I’ve never been very adept at shooting timelapses. Maybe I just don’t spend enough, well, time, on the preparation. I usually get caught up in the moment, training my camera on other vistas, other details, big and small, near and far, before finally reminding myself to set up the tripod and capture those dang clouds, […]
Everest, perspective, Quotations
Read MoreWhile we all have - for now - the right to remain silent, we sometimes also have the duty to speak. For me, that time is always, is now.
Two days ago, a great light in our world was extinguished when Mike Peters breathed his last. Mike was a musician best known for founding The Alarm, a Welsh band he started in 1981 that went on to fame, playing with the likes of Bob Dylan and U2. While his music was great, it was […]
Together, let's go higher than Everest to raise funds in honor of Sam Heughan's 45th birthday and support dZi Foundation in its support of and partnership with 50,000 people in rural eastern Nepal.
dZi Foundation, Nepal, Sam Heughan
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