Posts tagged with “Ruins”

View From The Other Side of the Mirror

14 April 2011

Its cities are the oldest in the inhabited world, its ruins the most intoxicating, its people the most welcoming. For the half of us human beings who identify as Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, its history is our identity, its civilization the emergence and syncretic evolution of our creed.

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Out Among The Ruins

31 July 2007 | Philly Skyline

Perhaps you know it as wild bergamot — that’s the lighter purple and shorter cousin with the same fluted flowers that so amuse the hummingbirds — and the equally riveted hummingbird moths (those with coats of winter velvet, long snouts and two antennae, who also flap their wings as if there is no tomorrow).

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