KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is having some fun with its magazine this month. Holland Herald, tucked into the pocket at each seat, is always a good read, and for August KLM the magazine has shaped itself as an “issue subject.” The editors are calling it “the passion issue” and it’s full of interesting, sometimes charming, …
Appreciating America: Notes from New York
The title is a bit off, for these thoughts are not an extensive commentary on life in New York. Nor is this to be the first of one of those “notes-on-living-in-the-big-city” series of essays. This is simply a brief excursion into an appreciative few words about where I live and why I – like so …
Murdering Humanitarians – Hatefulness at Large
Is there any way to end the hatefulness in the world? I am shocked to read two lead stories in today’s papers, both on the front page of The New York Times. One story describes the angry resistance to building mosques in some parts of America. While the controversy over the proposed mosque and cultural …
Africa in Nashville
A vacation in Virginia and Tennessee last month yielded up some surprises, including a bit of Africa at the Nashville (TN) Zoo. Pretty impressive, and happy to share some photographs at Mr. Guy’s Africa-in-Nashville Album.
More da Vinci: The Authentication Controversy
A quick follow-on to the story about the National Geographic Society Museum’s exhibition da Vinci – The Genius: Coincidentally, on the train returning from Washington, I found myself reading about yet another possible da Vinci work, currently on exhibition in Sweden under the patronage of the Italian government. Known as La Bella Principessa, the drawing …
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