Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Imagine your wedding ceremony conducted in the gunpowder magazine at the explosions museum in Portsmouth UK. I will say it’s an amazing large, red brick chamber with graceful arches, now empty of gunpowder of course. And your guests can wander through displays of naval weaponry and projectiles from cannon balls to missiles… A different sort…
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Walking from the bus station to our inn, we stumbled upon a statue in a small square. It was a monument to science fiction great H.G. Wells, who wrote War of the Worlds in 1895 while living in Woking. That novel, one of the earliest alien invasion novels (Martians invade Earth), and its author weren’t…
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A few days ago I posted some quotes from author Pico Iyer. Then I decided to bring one of his books along on my upcoming travels and selected The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home. He wrote it at the turn of the century, such a distant time. It was…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 