Last October, after we had crossed Canada by train (The Canadian, highly recommended), Andrew and I spent the remaining weeks of our vacation in further explorations in Vancouver and, for a bit, in Victoria. Some of these activities (and the train trip) were captured in our several “digital postcards,” posted to the right here. The …
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Vancouver: Christ Church Cathedral
Perhaps a New Way of Thinking about Organized Religion While I’m not much of a religious fellow, one of my favorite things is just to go and sit in churches. I don’t know why, and there’s no sense in trying to “dig too deeply” (perhaps it’s all that church music I sang in choirs over …
Vienna: A Third Memorial
Recognizing the Victims of Nazi Military Justice A third memorial which caught my interest is specifically different from the memorials described in the last post. This one, called The Memorial for the Victims of Nazi Military Justice, is by Olaf Nicolai, the German conceptual artist born in 1962 in Halle an der Saale. The memorial …
Vienna: Remembering the Holocaust
Two Memorials Honor the City’s Jewish Victims When I find a city or other travel destination that has special appeal for me, I “fall hard.” Certainly that has been the case with Vienna. It’s been more than three years since my last visit, and despite several blog posts, I’ve come to realize that my many …
The State Funeral
Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) Yesterday was a special day in the lives of millions of people throughout the world, and I’m grateful to have been among the lucky ones on “our side of the pond” who were able to get up at 4AM to witness this event. As it happened, my favorite image of all …
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