Thursday, August 17, 2006

A number of things















Travel and preparation for travel make us extremely aware of the wonder and diversity of this planet earth.

Robert Louis Stevenson said it:

The world is so full of a number of things,
I ’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Above: my son Michael in the evening lights on Times Square. Below: globe sculpture at the United Nations.
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