By all accounts, he wasn’t an easy man, my grandfather. He pushed hard, asked a lot, expected excellence - or at least excellent effort - from all around him. But, also by all accounts, he didn’t have the easiest beginnings, so his idiosyncrasies can at least be understood, if not justified. Sadly, I never met […]
November 24, 2005, Nimaj, Rajasthan, India It was impossible to capture him. His face was topographic, lines etched deep, a storybook of years spent smiling and laughing, toiling and struggling, living under the blazing sun of central Rajasthan. Wende and I were back in India, this time taking our mothers on (what was then) an […]
As I wrote Tuesday’s “Mountains of Memories” post Do Hard Things, the photo of my friend Peter atop Bienn a’ Chruliaste made me think not just of the beauty of wilderness solitude, but also the loneliness and isolation felt by me - perhaps by many - during our current challenging times. So, a Thursday Thought […]
October 8, 2013, Jajmau, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India My eyes watered, nose ran, lungs burned. I wasn’t sick, but I sure felt like it. We’d spent the day wandering through Jajmau, a “suburb” of Kanpur - the Manchester of the East - and touring its tanneries. Lying just south of sprawling Kanpur, Jajmau is the […]
india, Mountains of Memories, photography
Read MoreSeptember 18, 2019, on the shore of Lake Bohinj, Slovenia It was a foggy, mystical misty morning along the shores of Lake Bohinj. Not nearly as famous as its nearby cousin, Lake Bled, Bohinj is – in my humble estimation – far more beautiful, nested in lush valleys of the Julian Alps and butting up […]
Mountains of Memories, photography, Slovenia
Read MoreMoments after a single shot rang out at Utah Valley University, taking the life of Charlie Kirk, dozens of shots pierced the air at Evergreen High School, critically injuring two kids and forever altering the lives of a thousand students, faculty, staff, and their families. Same time zone. Same weapon used. Different ages and ideologies […]
“…[L]ike a rainbow arch soaring up to the skies, extending from one cliff to the other…,” were the words of 17th century Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi upon seeing the stunning Stari Most, or “Old Bridge” of Mostar in present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina. His observations of the physical bridge are spot-on: Commissioned by Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mountains of Memories, photography, Yugoslavia
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