Day 1: Oregon Trail & Portland
Here it is! The first true blog post of the Praxis Summer Road Show. The goal is to write a short re-cap like this one the next day and edit the longer interviews into extended posts and podcasts as possible. … Continued
Why Road Show? Climate Change & Fossil Fuels
[Part One in a series of posts about the Praxis Summer Road Show whys and hows] As we race beyond new thresholds for what activity our planet can sustain, we are experiencing the beginning stages of dramatic and visible long … Continued
Down and Out in Bil’in & Nazareth
Down and Out in Bil’in and Nazareth (Homage to George Orwell) A commune straight out of my hippie heartland surrounded by settlements and lights where there were never lights for the 100 years of living there in caves and tents … Continued
An Update on Lack of Updates
You can look at my most recent post, which is a bit different than the others, mostly because this has been a very different type of experience. The lack of updates the last few days has been due to an … Continued
“Not convince, just question”
We spent today in the neighborhood of the most famous descendant of the Holy Land. You may have heard of him: Jesus of Nazareth. We were part of a large flock of tourists who come to Nazareth to see the … Continued
Beyond the Binary
This is not a conflict with ‘sides’ in the sense that it is portrayed in the U.S. media, nor in the way that I somewhat characterized it in my original fundraising publication, which is available on this site. The information-rich, … Continued
Realities of the Wall
We encountered the separation wall sooner than I expected and I immediately wondered how it could be explained to “normal” tourists. The justification consistently supplied is “security”, but looking at a simple map of the Green Line overlaid with the … Continued
Mischief at the Mosque
I was surprised to find a less than solemn attitude among some of the youth hanging out at the Dome of the Rock. I liked these boys playing soccer, one of a few groups, but I worried a little about … Continued
The Holy Land
On our first full day in The Holy Land, we set off early in the morning to see the holiest sites for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. As a non-religious person, I never realized just how close in proximity these … Continued