Inputs from my husband, Eldar.
I often go for an early morning walk carrying a small camera. Sunrise is always a winner, and there is probably no better motif, at least not at dawn 🙂 The Mediterranean Sea stretches to the east from Torre de la Horadada on Costa Blanca in Spain. Every morning, the sun rises and maintains one […]
Spanish beach towns are mostly quiet in the winter. I have always associated silence with something poetic, but the extreme silence under the Coronavirus lockdown ripped that image. I live in Torre de la Horadada on the Southern end of Costa Blanca, Spain. Our town is dependent on tourism; the silence is far from idyllic. The […]
The internet is full of good advice. The best of them holds the essence of all human experience. Many are obvious and yet so hard to follow. Guess which is number one? The best advice Stephen Hawking gave his children was to look up at the stars and not down on our feet. Hawking was […]
My wife, Grace, is trying to learn SEO or search engine optimization. Some days ago she told me that thanks to a new update in Google called “Hummingbird”, spamming that is used to increase ranking for websites has now been thoroughly checked. Google is now doing double time to reward quality content to reduce spam. […]
The visible Universe consists of hundreds of billions of galaxies, and one of them, our own Milky Way. It has up to four hundred billion stars. According to the latest NASA calculations, there must be billions of planets like our own earth with all the preconditions for intelligent life. Where intelligent life is, there will […]
One of the gripping moments during the visit of Pope Francis in the Philippines was when a twelve-year-old girl with her tears flowing asked the Pope why God allow child-prostitution. The Pope had no answer at hand but comforted the girl with warmth and compassion. He later revealed wisely to the press that this was […]