Thursday, June 30, 2011

A few more pictures from Istanbul...

Here is Dianne and myself at the Blue Mosque...











And here is a band shot high a-top the Barcode Cafe building on the Asian side of Istanbul...









And here is St. Sophia in Iznik (Nicaea) from about the late 300 CE - it had first been a church and later a mosque and is now a sacred museum...












And finally here are a bunch of kids eating freshly roasted corn from a street vendor in Istanbul...

a time for weeping... and singing

There are times these days when I sit and weep. I am not desolate. Nor am I bereft of faith, hope, or love. Yet I still weep – mostly at wha...