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The Daily Communiqué – 19 April, 2019 – Where Would You Go?

Let’s pretend for a few minutes that I actually have time and energy to write an application for Atlas Obscura’s First Journey.  $15,000US to go anywhere and do anything in the world.  Where would I go?

Mind you, this is off the top of my head, and is an incomplete list.  Of course, I’d visit all the book stores and libraries inbetween!  Where would you go?

Niagara Falls at night

Statue of Liberty – I’d have to train in order to walk all 377 steps to the crown

 

Borglum's GeorgeMount Rushmore at sunrise
I did Haleakala at sunrise and it was spectacular

Powell’s Book Store in Portland

Burning of Zozobra in Santa Fe

New Orleans for the music and the food

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Hockey Hall of Fame

Salem, MA

Seneca Falls, NY

Paris

The steps outside the Tower of London where Princess Elizabeth I sat in the rain before being imprisoned.

Stonehenge

Florence, Italy

The Berlin Wall

Rock hewn churches in Ethiopia

The Rock Hewn (Underground) Churches in Lalibela, Ehtiopia

The Daily Communiqué – 15 April, 2019 – Notre Dame

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It is too much.  Notre Dame burning seemed farcical, and that’s how a co-worker and I treated it, at first.

He heaved a huge sigh which I remarked on hearing over my headphones.  “I think it’s the end times,” he said.

“What?”

“No, I’m serious.  Notre Dame’s burning.  It might be the end times.”

Then I said maybe god was pissed at Benedict for the horrible things he said in his letter.

“But if he’s dead, how can he be pissed?”

I was confused.  “Benedict isn’t dead.”

Click.  Whir.

“Oh!  Nietzsche …”

Hearing the news coverage on the way home broke my heart.  A place I’ve never been, yet so iconic as to feel like I know it caught fire.  The flames seen from miles away.  Paris came to a standstill as citizens of the world stopped what they were doing, to bear witness to the awfulness.  People prayed, sang, knelt, and wept at the sight.

Meanwhile, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was also on fire.  But you wouldn’t know that.  Not even Al-Jazeera has much to say about it.

So much hardship to be borne in the world. It makes giving up look like a good idea.  Do Not.  We must be strong for each other, and ourselves.