The Spirit of the World ( On and Off)
A Perfect Moment
“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it’s having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels. Do you understand?”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House: A Novel
For those of us that travel, we are often compelled to experience a place by reading a book, seeing an image or watching a film. When we arrive, it can be disappointing or enchanting. After watching the film, "Lawrence of Arabia", many times over I knew Wadi Rum was a place I had to add to my own being.
Don Lean, the director of the movie, showed the immense landscape, the sweeping vistas, and silent sameness of the desert sand. I wanted to experience some of the adventure that took one to such a desolate place and feel the quiet windswept emptiness and discover why the Bedouin still call it home.
Luckily, it became etched in my memory as a place of wonder, romance, silence, awareness and joy. The rock formation, The sight of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in this vast untamed desert, will be with me forever.
A Perfect Moment
“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it’s having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels. Do you understand?”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House: A Novel
For those of us that travel, we are often compelled to experience a place by reading a book, seeing an image or watching a film. When we arrive, it can be disappointing or enchanting. After watching the film, "Lawrence of Arabia", many times over I knew Wadi Rum was a place I had to add to my own being.
Don Lean, the director of the movie, showed the immense landscape, the sweeping vistas, and silent sameness of the desert sand. I wanted to experience some of the adventure that took one to such a desolate place and feel the quiet windswept emptiness and discover why the Bedouin still call it home.
Luckily, it became etched in my memory as a place of wonder, romance, silence, awareness and joy. The rock formation, The sight of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in this vast untamed desert, will be with me forever.