Round and Round She Goes...
Once again, I got too busy living to write about it...Sweden was dark, but wonderful, in spite of the 70 mph windstorm. God loves me to have invented Swedish coffee...( http://www.mcn.org/a/zoegas/ )...because jet lag for four days SUCKS.
London in 36 hours was an awesome blur...Curto definitely made some memories as well as losing several...lol...(more on that later). So much we missed, but took a tour bus and rode by unbelievable places like Number 10 Downing, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, etc. Ate in Chinatown, club-hopped in Soho, climbed the dome at St. Paul's Cathedral, toured the Tower of London, the crown jewels and National Armory, walked by Westminster Abbey, Parliament and Big Ben, toured the Churchill Museum and underground warrooms.
Ate fish and chips, steak and ale pie, raisin pudding with toffee sauce, and drank pints in pubs on Whitechapel Road. Rode the tube, stayed in the hotel where Jimi Hendrix was found dead (had I known previously, I might have opted to change hotels), and walked in Hyde Park. And more. In 36 hours....whew!
This is me, jetlagged, no sleep for a week, freezing my ass off, and loving every minute of the 400-and-however-many steps it took to get to the top of the dome at St. Paul's:
So, now my parents are back in NM safely, after having spent great quality time with the grandkids. And my house is, of course, cleaner than it's been since last time Mom came...with Amy's generous contribution, of course. Curto comes back from 2 weeks in Brussels tonight (I'm sure with more stories).
I got to go visit Bald Head island Friday night and yesterday. It's an incredible place in which to spend 18 hours, wish I could've stayed forever.
Again, whew!
I'm back home now, hopefully for a month or two, before I take off anywhere again.
More pics of London in next post...
So, a good friend turned me on to the 13th C. poet Rumi. Just beautiful:
http://www.khamush.com
and the noted Rumi translator, Coleman Barks, who went to UNC, among other places:
http://www.colemanbarks.com/
I really believe if Muslims would follow the Sufi way, the bombing would stop and maybe our world would achieve some semblance of peace.
I recommend Barks' book 'The Essential Rumi' as a good place to start.
Here's another great link, I love Dr. Pinkola Estes' work. No matter what your cause may be, I think her essay has relevance:
http://www.kporterfield.com/healing/estes.html
More later!
London in 36 hours was an awesome blur...Curto definitely made some memories as well as losing several...lol...(more on that later). So much we missed, but took a tour bus and rode by unbelievable places like Number 10 Downing, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, etc. Ate in Chinatown, club-hopped in Soho, climbed the dome at St. Paul's Cathedral, toured the Tower of London, the crown jewels and National Armory, walked by Westminster Abbey, Parliament and Big Ben, toured the Churchill Museum and underground warrooms.
Ate fish and chips, steak and ale pie, raisin pudding with toffee sauce, and drank pints in pubs on Whitechapel Road. Rode the tube, stayed in the hotel where Jimi Hendrix was found dead (had I known previously, I might have opted to change hotels), and walked in Hyde Park. And more. In 36 hours....whew!
This is me, jetlagged, no sleep for a week, freezing my ass off, and loving every minute of the 400-and-however-many steps it took to get to the top of the dome at St. Paul's:
So, now my parents are back in NM safely, after having spent great quality time with the grandkids. And my house is, of course, cleaner than it's been since last time Mom came...with Amy's generous contribution, of course. Curto comes back from 2 weeks in Brussels tonight (I'm sure with more stories).
I got to go visit Bald Head island Friday night and yesterday. It's an incredible place in which to spend 18 hours, wish I could've stayed forever.
Again, whew!
I'm back home now, hopefully for a month or two, before I take off anywhere again.
More pics of London in next post...
So, a good friend turned me on to the 13th C. poet Rumi. Just beautiful:
http://www.khamush.com
and the noted Rumi translator, Coleman Barks, who went to UNC, among other places:
http://www.colemanbarks.com/
I really believe if Muslims would follow the Sufi way, the bombing would stop and maybe our world would achieve some semblance of peace.
I recommend Barks' book 'The Essential Rumi' as a good place to start.
Here's another great link, I love Dr. Pinkola Estes' work. No matter what your cause may be, I think her essay has relevance:
http://www.kporterfield.com/healing/estes.html
More later!