Sharing Guy's Journey

Thoughts, comments, observations, reactions, enthusiasms

Personal History

The Children of Gachie

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I have often remarked about how happy I am in Kenya, and particularly with the happiness that seems so evident among so many of the Kenyans I’ve come to know. The situation is especially pleasant when visiting a typical Kenyan neighborhood. On these occasions, one is almost swept away by the beauty – and the …

New York, New York – Mr. Guy’s Neighborhood

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Following on my recent Appreciating America: Notes from New York, it seems appropriate to take a look at the neighborhood where I live. One of the delights of travel is the urge to share, to satisfy one’s curiosity, and the learn about how other people live. I’m certainly lucky, and I get a lot of …

An Enchanting Distraction: Le Grand Meaulnes

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Having been re-introduced to Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes back in March, when I was preparing for a wedding at which I would read selections from the novel, I’ve had a grand time. As I became reacquainted with the book, I decided to read it again, and I’ve just finished. I can’t remember a nicer literary …

Passion – The New Ambition?

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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

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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 …