I'm not American, but I live in another young nation, Aotearoa New Zealand. When I travelled in Greece and before that, Turkey (sailing in a 60-footer along its south coast), it was the sense of 'time' evoked by those ancient and/or old ruins/buildings that flowed into me. I wondered whether those inhabitants - hundreds and thousands of years before - thought about us, as we think back on them?! ...In Bodrum, Turkey, in a castle of St John, thinking about the Crusaders ...Isn't it time we stopped meddling in those places as if we had some right to them because we follow a religion founded there? It was a resources grab then and is so today. .
..But, to those who will see the tall ships, enjoy the 250-year spectacle. Why not have a little joy to salvage your soul..sensations for the young to remember and write about 50 years on, when they are become doddery like us, and we are history?!
I'm not American, but I live in another young nation, Aotearoa New Zealand. When I travelled in Greece and before that, Turkey (sailing in a 60-footer along its south coast), it was the sense of 'time' evoked by those ancient and/or old ruins/buildings that flowed into me. I wondered whether those inhabitants - hundreds and thousands of years before - thought about us, as we think back on them?! ...In Bodrum, Turkey, in a castle of St John, thinking about the Crusaders ...Isn't it time we stopped meddling in those places as if we had some right to them because we follow a religion founded there? It was a resources grab then and is so today. .
..But, to those who will see the tall ships, enjoy the 250-year spectacle. Why not have a little joy to salvage your soul..sensations for the young to remember and write about 50 years on, when they are become doddery like us, and we are history?!
I'm honestly not sure what you mean.
ahhhh, 50 years in a flash (i have these moments often). and its back to epidavros for us (or at least half of the time). Good read!!
Correction: it was the 200th birthday of the Statue of Liberty celebration. FORTY YEARS! Still goes in a blink!