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+ Cadenza + “On the meridian of time there is no justice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and justice — [...] burgundy leaves hinting at autumn before it has come. Another summer to sweat through. Or maybe they are a reminder of an autumn p

+ I Don't Sleep I Dream + Once you pass through the odd and oversized foyer, which feels like a half finished storefront for H&M or the like, stairs lead [...] there at the time. I know all I will find are half truths and suggestions, but the more I know the freer my imagination seems to beco

+ Unreflected + I haven’t written much about the actual traveling lately, chiefly because it’s been by automobile which just [...] a vehicleless downtown full of street markets, cafes, cobblestones and coffeehouses, in practice the Ringstrasse effectively isol

+ Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds + “He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his soul so much wider, [...] has thus far remained elusive in my research. Which is to say I never looked into it; I am content with the simplicity of memo

+ Inside And Out + Cesky Krumlov is a small Czech town nestled on a dramatic bend in the Vltava River. Like any European city worth its salt, it has a [...] girls. Europe, for all its supposed open-mindedness on art, has had its moments of prudishness. Walking the streets just adjace

+ The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two + The chief attraction of Bled Slovenia is the sweeping panorama of the Julian Alps which lie just beyond its doorstep, which in this [...] of pale silvery branches below. Lichen are a composite plant consisting of a fungus which contains photosynthetic algae cell

+ Ghost + From Dubrovnik we returned north toward Slovenia, stopping along the way to spend one night in the peaceful, almost backwater, [...] Nabakov who said in one of his novel that writers and the dead travel in the same thing—the past. Indeed I have found, not ju

+ Feel Good Lost + From Lake Plivtice we drove west over the coastal mountains and down to the Dalmatian seaside where the highway hugs the shore and [...] buildings date from about 1468, though some were destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667, which leveled nearly everything on t

+ Blue Milk + Its hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral [...] is an interesting historical figure; he managed with some success to keep one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse countri

+ Refracted Light and Grace + My first impressions of central Europe were from the plane coming in low over Budapest where I noted that the typical Soviet [...] slowly gave way to blocks of older vaguely Art Nouveau buildings until finally when we crossed the bridge into Pest I was confron

+ London Calling + “Why are you choosing to visit your friend now?” (shrug) (smile) “How much money are you bringing [...] bright. Which is basically accurate I suppose. The nicest thing anyone’s said to me on this trip was my friend Keith who loo

+ Closing Time + After spending the better part of the day running about Trang, from the customs house to immigration and then Tesco and other [...] the train as it passed. I thought also of the fact that my time in Southeast Asia was nearly over. Four days in Bangkok to do a bit

+ Beginning of the End + I will confess to being a bit melancholy on the ferry from Ko Phi Phi to Ko Lanta. It was slowly beginning to sink in that my trip [...] The next day I rented a motorbike and drove down every single length of road on the island. It turned out that the eastern shore is

+ Going Down South + Matt and I spent one day by ourselves in Sinoukville and though we never spoke of it I thought it was pretty appropriate that when [...] having his last night in Bangkok might think the same thing. So we hit the Khao San in full swing. As it turned out, Ofir had more

+ The Book of Right On + The mountaintops were shrouded in clouds and what could have been a view of the ocean was instead a sea of swirling white, misty [...] that have been together for forty years and still hold hands when they walk around. The kind of image Hallmark is trying to sell