On a foreign map…
No matter how often I travel, for some reason I have a special place in my heart for maps. To see a map, recognize it as foreign, and know that…
Octoporto Rafti…
I only lived there a few months, but returning to the little bay town southeast of Athens feels like returning to a childhood home. I’m the luckiest guy in the…
Fortified storms…
When you’re on a mountaintop, you’re closer to the storm. . Stay tuned… -Noah D.
The land with the jealous trees…
It is easy to look at the shanty towns and slums around Port-au-Prince as a highly disorganized mess of buildings built haphazardly on the slopes of otherwise un-inhabitable areas. These…
Coffee, coffins, and context…
Patching a tire in Haiti. D said once, after having experienced the joys of bathing in a river: “Everything just takes so much longer to do here.” But close to…
It grows where nothing goes…
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage…
In the beauty of the gulf wind…
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,…
What is a Macau…?
Saying “I just got back from Macau” is sorta like saying “I’ve been to Vegas.” I guess “What happens in Macau stays in Macau!” just doesn’t have the same ring…
Into the fog and fire…
“Affluence isn’t affluence at all. Hong Kong is the benchmark; everybody else’s affluence is mere tat. Until you’ve experienced that perfume-washed air as polarized glass doors embrace you into a…
And then to somewhere completely different…
This job has taken me a lot of unusual places, but this was the farthest around the planet I’d gone yet. Too bad I was absurdly sick. I arrived in…
Playing music while others wait…
None shall sleep! None shall sleep! You too, princess, In your cold room You watch the stars Trembling of love and hope… But my secret is locked within me No…
Tuileries and gardens…
Such an unfortunate situation to be stuck in Paris waiting for my co-workers. . . . I didn’t realize it yet. But I was coming down with something… It is…