Chain Bridge in Budapest My husband and I leave today for Europe. We will be in Hungary and Germany, possibly France. I will be taking photos and journaling as we go. Budapest is especially beautiful with the Danube River dividing the city, Buda on one side and Pest on the other… See you on the…
Category: Travel
haiku: desert dawn
dawn slathers scarlet across the gray desert sky shadows soak first light
haiku: irony
prickly thistle thrives in the desert place, swathed in purple like a king
A Love Story
Today is our 25th anniversary, so I thought a love story would be in order… A 55 pound tortoise who lives in the zoo in Jerusalem, Israel, is paraplegic, that is her hind legs don’t move. But recently custom fit with a skateboard, Aravat isn’t staying home anymore. Now she ventures out all the time and has attracted a…
Pitter-Patter
This guy still makes my heart go pitter-patter. Next week we will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. Yes, we had a hot August wedding in Texas. And here it is again, 25 years later, still hot. So we are heading a little north for a respite from the heat. I wanted to go to Italy or…
When the Tanks Roll into Russia Again…
Fox News made this announcement about the Russian military invasion of Georgia on August 8, 2008. And here we are few days later, and the war is escalating. Read this story. In the American Thinker on August 5th, Putin has described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastraphe in the 20th century.” Will the former Soviet…
The Ghost of You and The Ghost of Me, Celebrating a Birthday…
Dear reader, Gently, you come and go. I feel you everyday when I connect. I know you have been here. I feel you here. I notice that you have read certain posts and have ignored others; some you have read over and over. Sometimes you leave a comment, a referrer line, or the wisp of a click. Sometimes…
the feet of a roman god
I was just thinking about a poem I wrote last fall on the shores of Caesarea, while visiting Israel. It is a beautiful, sundrenched coastline, replete with layers of antiquity. And it is a wonderful place to sit and ponder as the wind stirs the memories of an ancient civiliztion that once ruled the world. the…
haiku: scarlet sky
scarlet painted sky every color in nature a sign from heaven
On Lexington Green
A few years ago, my husband, daughter, and I took the marvelous book about American history, “The Light and the Glory” by Peter Marshall and toured New England. We visited many historical sites and read as we traveled. It was a very meaning trip. Our patriotism and thanksgiving for our country and the many sacrifices of our…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 