When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive? How much of it is conscious and intentional? That is a big question.
-- Joseph Campbell
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PicturesThe First Page - Miscellaneous
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Me at the bottom of the famous Potemkin Stairs in Odessa. No baby carriages in sight, but plenty of tourists. Everyone was taking pictures, and you could hear many different languages, including English. At the hotel where we stayed my friend Susie (whose Russian is really good) helped translate for a Dutch tourist who was having trouble communicating with the Russian-speaking desk clerk. Some Italian tourists overheard the English and asked for help finding a good beach. Odessa's a fun city, though I was only there for a couple of days--not long enough to see very much.
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Izmail is a city south of Odessa, down near the border with Romania. I was there working at a summer camp. I saw these funny little trashcans in several places in Izmail. Trashcans themselves are pretty rare in Ukraine--but I've never seen any penguine trashcans!
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Another summer camp I worked at this summer was in Mukachevo, a city in Western Ukraine, a truly beatiful area. Mukachevo has a castle on a hill overlooking the city and countryside, and this picture is taken from there. Patchwork countryside, fantastic storm in the background.
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Another picture from Mukachevo, which has an equally beatiful downtown. (Crimea looks nothing like this; it is uniquely Western Ukraine.) I loved this bronze statue of Saints Cyril and Methodius, who developed the cyrillic alphabet.
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The Red Hair, now abandoned. (It's not looking this red anymore, at least.) This picture was taken on Christmas Day in Kyiv.
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