It is a beautiful warm day here in the port so it should become warmer as we head more south. It is good to be back in the sun. I now know a bit better the reason i had my dream in Athens with the preacher and the answer to my rehash of the religious…
As i travel to Israel i am finding very little peace on board this ship. Outside on deck they are hammering and grinding, inside at the lounge there are televisions playing different stations and two radios playing different music and, in the halls, more music. So, i keep returning to the cabin for quiet. I…
After i awoke and preformed my morning rituals, i went to the bookstore for information on India and Thailand. Then to the market for supplies on my passage to Isreal. Dates, olives, nuts, apples, oranges; all were cheap and all i bought too much, not yet understanding kilos to drachmas rates. So, i shared them…
Today is to be the day i am to leave for Israel, weather permitting. Before i awoke, i had a dream that I was riding with a young preacher/priest in his new huge truck that was not just big but ‘too’ big for him. As we drove, he told me of the god of the…
I went for another walk today, so to walk off another Greek fed lunch. I went in search of a bookstore that has an English translation of the Greek orthodox. After thinking about it, i am just wanting a very small book of the Gospels. Tomorrow as i run errands before the ship’s departure, i…
I ate what felt like much, for breakfast this morning so, after I went for a walk to the city market in order to look around for what I was thinking of buying for my trip to Israel. I had a list of ten items and when I returned it was a list of five…
Many thoughts were running through my mind last night as i laid in the bed. One such that i was able to give length of thought concerning what Peter and his wife were known to spout, “you are not the body.” Yet it is only true when you no longer are under the control of…
Many cups of coffee for me on this could damp day. For Breakfast i was to have kidney beans and rice but only had the beans with bread because it was early this morning and now it is late afternoon and the rice is still soaking. All for the best because the beans by themselves…
Yesterday, while wandering the streets of Athens, I was approached by a man who wanted to take me to a whore. I told him that I had no desire for that sort of thing. Then I thought that I surely was not going to pay for sex if I did want it. I saw people…