Peace and Pollution
Moving on the river in a noisy tin bath of a boat makes me aware of the contrast between nature's engineering and our man-made engineering. A fish swims silently and graceful in the water while our boat moves like an angry noisy monster, cumbersomely up river. You know, I'm thinking to myself what I would give just to feel the peace and serenity of my surroundings. But the boat droans on.
Ideas turn over in my head like cash in a bank. If only we could keep in...
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I'm up early this morning to see if I can tune into the service being streamed out live from St Andrew's Bo'ness.The truth is I can't sleep, the continual drone of motor bike engines become a lulla bye giving you false hope of sleep, only to find the backfire of a motor bike wakens you up thinking was that a gun?
I make my way down stairs to the computer in the reception area. However I find I have to face the disappointment that I'm in the Jungle city of...
I had breakfast with Paul Clark the Director of Union Biblica. He is a commanding figure even at the age of seventy five. His white hair neatly combed in place he looks cool. I think he probably has always been cool. We started a conversation about multi tasking. Paul believes that woman can do this better than men. We then moved to the idea of thinking. Marty his wife joins in. "Men are like waffles when they think, as for women, well we're spaghetti."
Well I was...
The first thing you notice when you get off the plane in Lima is the heat. It must have been at least 75 degrees. There was a smell of stale fish in the air and the traffic horns were noisy. This is a city of some eleven million people stretched out over a desert coastal strip surrounded by huge sand dunes. I'm told it hasn't really rained here since the 1970s. This is a city of many contrasts. I had lunch in a coastal restaurant called the Costa Verde. It was really...
Well in a few hours I'll be off on the flight to Peru. thanks for your comment Gordon. I well remember your visit to AH1 that was a day and a half. You were overcome with sun stroke and I felt so sorry for you. Your a big guy and you looked as white as a sheet. we've had some exciting experiences in the Amazon. travelling back in the dark to Iquitos is no joke. Especially when your passengers aren't 100%. It can be dangerous because of the material that might...
We here I am once again getting ready to do the long haul across the Atlantic to South America. I'll be visiting Peru for the next nine days. Catching up with our partners SUPeru and meeting the new Chairman of their board. Meanwhile I'm just back from a Kirk Session meeting tonight.We talked about a lot of things.
I think there is a great frustration that we can't get the accommodation we need right now. Its been the same old story for years. We see growth, new...