“Don’t get happy!” came the thundering voice from the sidelines. It was a classic saying of the late Norm Walker, my football coach, English teacher, poet, wisdom-giver, and wonderful man in high school at Holderness School. It sounded strange at first blush, but made sense the longer one played for Coach Walker: he hated cockiness, […]
Take meTo the magic of the moment on a glory night I wasn’t expecting to hear the Scorpions in the rural outskirts of Danilovgrad. And especially not belted out by a group of passionate, wine-buzzed, new Montenegrin friends roughly in tune with an accordion player. But, strange things happen when you open up on the […]
The flakes stung my cheeks, wind whipped, swirling through pines swaying in the gale. It was only 25 degrees or so, not cold for this valley this time of year, but cold enough to feel icy tendrils snaking up my extremities. I wanted to go, to move, to get warm. But not yet. I came […]
“…[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
Read MoreNote: As I was finishing this post - still very much in the draft form you'll find below - my daughter came in to my office to alert me of an active shooter situation at Evergreen High School, where both kids and many friends attend. By good fortune, both our children were off campus when […]
Mountains of Memories, perspective, photography
Read MoreA brief moment along the dusty road from Lake Manasarovar to Nyalam, Tibet, gazing across dunes and rivers to remote peaks beyond.
photography, Tibet, Western Tibet
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inspiration, Mountains of Memories, newsletter
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