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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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What I’m reading,
May 2025:

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Assessing a Mosque

August 05, 2024
Tags: Egypt, mosque, design, quran, beauty, nation

The View is Everything

January 30, 2024
Tags: Japan, beauty, aesthetic, shrine, view, flower

Preserving a Beautiful Place

December 26, 2023
Tags: Japan, shinto, beauty, tea, preservation

Craft and Beauty

November 22, 2021
Tags: Greece, statue, museum, beauty, relic, civilization
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Why This Art Here?

September 10, 2021
Tags: nashville, painting, Greece, art, museum, beauty, women

Art for the Future

July 06, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, race, BLM, graffiti, beauty, public art
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Heading for the Light

June 13, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, prairie, Darwin, evolution, nature, religion, landscape, beauty, sky
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Ford Stick Shifts

April 18, 2021
Tags: wisconsin, beauty, public art, business, cars, ford, outsider art, shrine
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A Human Point of View

May 09, 2019
Tags: South Africa, nature, garden, Life, mountains, beauty
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A Beautiful Bridge

January 24, 2019
Tags: Senegal, bridges, river, colonialism, beauty
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Mosque as Monument

January 17, 2019
Tags: Senegal, mosque, architecture, beauty, monunent
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The Perfect Space

October 09, 2018
Tags: beauty, material, islam, Morocco, tile, art
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Writing on the Wall

October 09, 2018
Tags: art, islam, Morocco, calligraphy, beauty, aesthetic, tile, quran
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A Dorm Window

October 08, 2018
Tags: Morocco, school, dorm, beauty, islam, education
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The Disney Madrasa

October 07, 2018
Tags: Disney, Morocco, tile, beauty, religion, art
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