Sunny Side Up

Spent a little over five hours today flying across the distance we'll be driving over ten days soon. Weather covered most of the first ...

On the way to a vigil for Orlando at Grand Army Plaza this evening.

So Kailash is one of those flying mountains...!  Katia Buffetrille, "One day the mountains will go away: Preliminary remarks on the ...

When I heard the awful news from Orlando this morning, and after trying to parse it in words, I just held on to my love, we clung to each o...

A first stab at an itinerary for our cross-country drive starting 25 June. 

My last trip to Teachers College - a conference marking the end of the phase of the MetroCITI project which had me up there for fourteen ...

The Brooklyn Museum is open evenings on Thursdays, and for free - something they don't go out of their way to publicize. But if you g...

I've never really looked into Islamic lore around Job, but found my way to some as part of a book chapter on Joban reception history I...

So it turns out the literature on pilgrimage is vast, and fascinating. And to the delight of this theorist of religion, there are lots of j...

A welcome rain kissing some of the first day lilies of summer...

Have you seen " Song of the Sea ," an animated marvel from Ireland? Do!

Have I ever mentioned that this wall-filling view of the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin is what greets me every time I go to my office (cour...

Late afternoon light on the fountain at Grand Army Plaza, after a long walk through the elysian fields of Prospect Park...

Got us a map (Michelin!). Big country we're enterprising to cross...

 

In preparation for this summer's Kailas trip I've been tasked with reading up on pilgrimage and sacred mountains and writing a shor...

At the Rubin Museum of Art (which I've not had a chance to visit in a while), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge invited visitors to leave somet...

The Trump phenomenon has left me, as so many others, speechless. I've felt an almost demonic power in his ability to get people to talk...

Worth posting again (I've found a sharper image ); from September 2014.

The peonies are just about to pop at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. These snaggle-toothed onions have popped already...