Just another picture to show how effortlessly and completely I blend into my surroundings overseas. Here I am haggling with a merchant in San'a. I'm the one on the right.
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"It was in vain that I lingered before the hawthorns."
About Me
- Gary Scudder
- Burlington, Vermont, United States
- As Lucinda Williams reminds us: "In the silence of the roses Words fell"
Labels
- Australia (10)
- Austria (17)
- Belgium (11)
- Canada (24)
- Champlain (68)
- China (29)
- Cincinnati (10)
- Croatia (15)
- Czech Republic (14)
- Discography (125)
- Disquiet (52)
- Egypt (26)
- Faith (374)
- Family. (83)
- Finland (1)
- Food (39)
- France (2)
- Friends (203)
- Holland (1)
- Hong Kong (3)
- Hungary (12)
- Iceland (38)
- India (97)
- Italy (27)
- Jordan (122)
- Kenya (11)
- Kuwait (4)
- Lebanon (11)
- Literature (4)
- Marcus Aurelius (40)
- Montenegro (3)
- Morocco (8)
- Music (126)
- Namibia (30)
- Oman (15)
- Palestine (1)
- Personal (251)
- Photography (5)
- Portugal (81)
- Proust (740)
- Reflections (238)
- Russia (34)
- Sierra Leone (1)
- Slovakia (5)
- South Africa (19)
- Spain (20)
- Sri Lanka (14)
- Sweden (6)
- Tanzania (38)
- Travel (126)
- Turkey (8)
- Uganda (1)
- United Arab Emirates (117)
- United Kingdom (7)
- Vermont (109)
- Yemen (23)
- Zambia (16)
- Zanzibar (97)
Blog Archive
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2012
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May
(22)
- Open Doors
- It Ain't Easy Seeing Green
- Inertia
- Thinking of Vermont
- Zanzibar Slave Monument
- Minaret
- Bilqis
- Yemenis
- Impeccable Sense of Direction
- Boxing Day
- Old Friends, and Wonderful Ones
- Chameleon
- Sana'a Street Scenes
- Kettlehell
- And So It Began
- Sana'a
- Meaningful Books: 2007
- Songs: Helpless
- Bowling Alone?
- Different Views
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Another Thursday
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May
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Countries Visited
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- China
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Egypt
- France
- Germany
- Holland
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Mexico
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Namibia
- Oman
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Tanzania
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Vatican City
- Yemen
- Zambia
Words (Between the Lines of Age)
"To think a flower is to see and smell it, And to eat a fruit is to know its meaning."
Fernando Pessoa,
"Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?"
Virgil, Aeneid
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
"This is the way the gods ordained the destiny of men, to bear such burdens in our lives, while they feel no affliction."
Homer, The Iliad
Check It Out
On the Nightstand
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand, Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb
- William Carter, Marcel Proust: A Life
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