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Caravanserai

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

I am not a normal travel blogger; not a travel blogger at all really. I frequent the lost places, and sometimes I write about them. It is an uncommon world we live in, that is what the great lockdown has … Continue reading →

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Stepping Stones in Time

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

Time marches on, leaving stepping stones to remind us of where we have been, show us where we might be going and reflect upon whether or not things turn out as we expected. This is the job of writers. Some … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas From Another Lost Place: This One Ancient and Cold

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

A while ago I wrote about a Christmas in the Sahara; a lost place far from the hubbub of the holidays in places cold and clean. A Muslim place which did not consider Jesus or His condescension to meet us … Continue reading →

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To Talk of Many Things… (Vol. #7 – Influence)

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand: “If this were only cleared away,” They said, “it would be grand!” I was walking through an ancient monastery yesterday, Thanksgiving Day, in a place lost in time and history. … Continue reading →

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Visit Bisbee

Posted on July 15, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

You might want to take a trip this summer; and you might want in doing so to visit the lost places in our own lands. So you grab the old road atlas that your dad left up in the attic … Continue reading →

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The Event Horizon of Africa

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

Last night I sat with friends in a run-down rooftop restaurant overlooking pockmarked streets and balding hills watching the sun set – again – over Africa. The smell of wood smoke lightly scented with beans wafted on high as we … Continue reading →

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To Talk of Many Things… (Vol. #3 – Dubai)

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

“The Walrus and the Carpenter Were walking close at hand: They wept like anything to see Such quantities of sand:” “What was your favorite thing about vacation?” I asked my little boy, to his thoughtful answer “Green Planet…! I touched … Continue reading →

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The Hard Work of Understanding

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

In this sordid age of journalistic wickedness when those of that treasured profession have decided against their ancient sacred trust of informing, of shining beautiful white light into the darkened corners of our tired world, sometimes nevertheless you come across … Continue reading →

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I Will Write More of Africa

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

I will be writing more about Africa. For I am to leave this place, and proximately she will exist only in my memories; in my hopes for a better tomorrow and in my sadness at things unchanged, at suffering unstemmed … Continue reading →

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The Wave Held

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

The children over the walls and the concertina wire are in school. The chattering of recess which belies the poverty, reminding we who live in Elysium that all people are the same; the same, equality – that wicked word, harsh … Continue reading →

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