http://jcarillet.gather.com Recent Articles on Gather by Joel Carillet en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2013 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:00:17 GMT 2013-05-25T03:00:17Z en-us Copyright Gather Inc 2013 http://www.gather.com/images/header/logo_gather.gif http://www.gather.com/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974202   One of Japan’s greatest novelists is Shusaku Endo (1923-1996).  A Christian in a country where less than one percent of the population is Christian, Endo’s search for . . . Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:00:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977974202 Joel Carillet 2010-01-03T11:00:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977582466               Sitting by the lakeshore and looking up into a clear blue sky, it was hard to imagine that here, amid such perfect quiet, Mother . . . Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:07:39 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977582466 Joel Carillet 2009-02-05T11:07:39Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977572723               This is the fifth and final installment of my "Nicaragua in Black and White" series. The following photographs are . . . Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:34:27 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977572723 Joel Carillet 2009-01-23T16:34:27Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977557514               On Day Seven of my all-too-short visit to Nicaragua, I said goodbye to friends who had wonderfully hosted me in their Managua . . . Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:05:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977557514 Joel Carillet 2009-01-09T18:05:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977542691                 The first thing I said as I stepped off the bus in Managua was a word I won't bother to type up.  Dusk had . . . Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:48:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977542691 Joel Carillet 2008-12-29T15:48:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977531828               This is part two of a four-part series looking at different towns in Nicaragua.  To begin at part one -- Granada -- click . . . Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:25:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977531828 Joel Carillet 2008-12-12T21:25:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977517694   This post begins what I hope will be a four-part series on Nicaragua, where I recently traveled for two weeks.  The series will be a little different from most of . . . Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:51:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977517694 Joel Carillet 2008-11-27T15:51:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977502696 It goes without saying that for most of his presidency George Bush was, as CNN's Christiane Amanpour once termed . . . Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:36:33 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977502696 Joel Carillet 2008-11-12T08:36:33Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977491172 During a ten-day stay in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, I often found myself at Café Fresco.  I went there because it was air-conditioned.  And when I . . . Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:58:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977491172 Joel Carillet 2008-10-30T14:58:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977471766 To begin at part one, CLICK HERE   Back in Burqin—we were now about a mile from the tank blocking the . . . Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:33:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977471766 Joel Carillet 2008-10-18T19:33:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977435600 Encounters between Israelis and Palestinians do not always go well.   This past summer, for example, an angry . . . Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:02:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977435600 Joel Carillet 2008-09-26T14:02:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977447207 Rattle and Hum. Most know this as the title of a U2 album. But it can also describe something of the experience of riding a train. In some countries . . . Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:30:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977447207 Joel Carillet 2008-09-12T15:30:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977434520     I appreciate a good piece of technology as much as the next guy, but I don't like to spend money on it.  . . . Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:41:58 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977434520 Joel Carillet 2008-08-30T18:41:58Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977421758                 In November 2004, more than a year into my journey across Asia, I had the opportunity to spend a week in Georgia.  . . . Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:03:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977421758 Joel Carillet 2008-08-18T10:03:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977411413                 Bangkok, Thailand   Some people travel abroad primarily to be still.   Popular venues for this include . . . Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:58:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977411413 Joel Carillet 2008-08-01T18:58:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977400479                 An Old Mosque The Hazreti Suleyman Camii is a twelfth-century mosque in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir that . . . Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:23:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977400479 Joel Carillet 2008-07-17T23:23:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977388989             The day had begun in the Chinese city of Kashgar, where I awoke to see thick winter clouds pouring cold rain onto the streets . . . Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:48:44 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977388989 Joel Carillet 2008-07-03T15:48:44Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977369561             TO BEGIN AT PART ONE, CLICK HERE     Mian said goodbye and the bus continued on toward Peshawar.   It was . . . Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:30:36 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977369561 Joel Carillet 2008-06-19T10:30:36Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977362638               It was dusk now and the bus continued its rumble west on the Grand Trunk Road.   We were two hours out of Rawalpindi and still . . . Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:52:55 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977362638 Joel Carillet 2008-06-06T08:52:55Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977351354             Early this summer I anticipate the publication of my book 30 Reasons to Travel: Photographs and Reflections from Southeast Asia .  . . . Thu, 22 May 2008 17:00:15 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977351354 Joel Carillet 2008-05-22T17:00:15Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977341530               MELBOURNE, FLORIDA (MARCH 2008) Blame it on the Melbourne Beach Public Library.   Had they not stocked a visually . . . Thu, 08 May 2008 16:02:41 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977341530 Joel Carillet 2008-05-08T16:02:41Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977331662               What follows is lifted from my personal journal and is set in 2004 on Indonesia's largest island, Sumatra.  I don't . . . Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:21:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977331662 Joel Carillet 2008-04-25T13:21:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977324560                 To begin at Part One of this two-part series, click HERE December 2006 Twenty-six months later I'm standing . . . Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:01:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977324560 Joel Carillet 2008-04-15T21:01:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977295147           On my laptop is a Word document in which three years ago I typed up my favorite passages - 4,000 words worth - from Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers . . . Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:45:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977295147 Joel Carillet 2008-03-28T12:45:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977283921             In one of the final pages of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karmazov , the main character is speaking to a group of boys and encouraging . . . Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:37:21 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977283921 Joel Carillet 2008-03-13T23:37:21Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977272074             The following story, based on a 2004 visit to Bangkok and set largely in a strip club, is one of the more sensitive pieces I've . . . Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:18:32 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977272074 Joel Carillet 2008-02-29T16:18:32Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977272040 Continued from Reflections on the Road: Red Lights and a Rose (Bangkok, Thailand)     Walking around Nana now, four years later, I remembered her and wondered how her body and spirit . . . Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:42:05 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977272040 Joel Carillet 2008-02-29T14:42:05Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977253719               For hours I had been traveling up the Nile Valley, from Luxor to Cairo, on a train jammed with Egypt's working poor. Having been . . . Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:14:41 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977253719 Joel Carillet 2008-02-13T12:14:41Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977244831             In providing captions for photo graphs, there is often background to the image that the photographer leaves out.  . . . Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:50:35 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977244831 Joel Carillet 2008-01-31T00:50:35Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977230862             In the spirit of the " Excerpts from a Manuscript " posts I did almost three months ago, which looked at Asia, I thought . . . Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:51:03 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977230862 Joel Carillet 2008-01-16T20:51:03Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977218415       I'm doing something a little different for this week's column.  Instead of a "crafted" article, I'm simply posting a . . . Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:03:18 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977218415 Joel Carillet 2008-01-02T15:03:18Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977199655           To begin at Part One, click HERE   Eighteen hours later, through the fog of a powerful drug, I awoke to what at first I genuinely . . . Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:59:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977199655 Joel Carillet 2007-12-19T10:59:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977193441             He was about 6'4" and said he was from Kuwait, though later an official at the U.S. consulate would tell me he was likely from . . . Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:52:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977193441 Joel Carillet 2007-12-05T11:52:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977175310               Six years have passed since that morning, but still today, when I come across that dusty and tattered book now tucked away in a . . . Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:12:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977175310 Joel Carillet 2007-11-21T10:12:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977165640             This is the second "manuscript excerpt" post.  To begin at the first one, CLICK HERE _________________________ . . . Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:49:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977165640 Joel Carillet 2007-11-08T09:49:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977158343               This installment of my "Reflections on the Road" column draws from the manuscript I've written narrating my . . . Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:30:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977158343 Joel Carillet 2007-10-26T01:30:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977145259                THE SETTING Most of my 34-year-old peers are married with children.  They live in homes and, with few exceptions, have jobs for which . . . Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:53:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977145259 Joel Carillet 2007-10-12T08:53:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977103322               A year ago -- or heck, even six weeks ago -- if you had asked me if I would ever post a photo essay set in a market, particularly . . . Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:42:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977103322 Joel Carillet 2007-08-31T22:42:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977065116             Part 2 of 2; to begin at Part 1, click HERE)    But this occasion was unique because Salim had decided to lease the land to ICAHD and, . . . Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:16:56 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977065116 Joel Carillet 2007-08-15T11:16:56Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977065098                 (Part 1 of 2)    Having worked for several months in Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories, I could confirm much . . . Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:01:42 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977065098 Joel Carillet 2007-08-01T22:01:42Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014419                   (Part 4 of 4.  To begin at Part 1, click HERE)   Four days later, sitting alone on the Great Wall at Simatai, sixty-five . . . Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:42:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014419 Joel Carillet 2007-07-18T20:42:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014391                 (Part 3 of 4.  To begin at Part 1, click HERE)   The next morning, my first full day in Asia, I had a simple goal:  to find . . . Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:04:22 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014391 Joel Carillet 2007-07-04T11:04:22Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014378           (Part 2 of 4 -- to read Part 1, click HERE)   The plane banked left to line up with the runway on the edge of hazy Minneapolis.  After a ninety-minute . . . Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:41:07 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014378 Joel Carillet 2007-06-20T07:41:07Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014357                 (This is the first in a four-part installment recounting the start of my 14-month journey across Asia, which began in October 2003.) . . . Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:33:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977014357 Joel Carillet 2007-06-06T23:33:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976973431                 Early on in my fourteen-month journey across Asia, while sitting atop the Great Wall of China, I wrote in my notebook, "Many ways . . . Wed, 23 May 2007 23:20:34 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976973431 Joel Carillet 2007-05-23T23:20:34Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976969115                  I remember the first time I looked at a puddle and felt sadness.  It was a summer afternoon in Nepal, the 30th of July, 2004, . . . Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:08:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976969115 Joel Carillet 2007-04-26T14:08:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976956434                        The entire teahouse was drenched in warm sunlight.  Early morning shadows were cast about the room, falling . . . Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:23:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976956434 Joel Carillet 2007-04-12T13:23:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950701                     A Franciscan prays in Bethlehem before Easter   Few people know much about the existence of Palestinian Christians, . . . Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:29:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976950701 Joel Carillet 2007-04-05T11:29:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976945176                   In part one of this series, I followed the Mekong River as it flowed from Tibet through China's Yunnan province, Myanmar, and . . . Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:13:47 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976945176 Joel Carillet 2007-03-29T13:13:47Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976931979                 In Thai, Mae Nam Khong means "Khong, mother of waters."  In English, we know it as the Mekong. I can no longer recall the . . . Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:25:33 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976931979 Joel Carillet 2007-03-15T13:25:33Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976925761                       Several minutes after crossing the border into Uzbekistan I exchanged $20; in return, I got a wad of bills wrapped . . . Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:28:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976925761 Joel Carillet 2007-03-07T13:28:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976921111                    THE SETTING     For two nights I had lived in a plywood closet of a room, which superheated during the day . . . Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:03:19 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976921111 Joel Carillet 2007-03-01T12:03:19Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976899021                 PART I – THE SETTING I was in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, and in several weeks I would be traveling to China over the 15,397-foot . . . Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:38:44 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976899021 Joel Carillet 2007-02-02T13:38:44Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976867336                       For several years now, I have been unable to lightheartedly sing Christmas carols containing the word "Bethlehem".  . . . Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:41:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976867336 Joel Carillet 2006-12-22T11:41:12Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976859249                         On the road, it is often a loving stranger who illustrates that, at our best, we are all brothers and sisters . . . Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:31:27 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976859249 Joel Carillet 2006-12-11T12:31:27Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976823762 Advertisements for all sorts of things are everywhere, and most certainly in Asia, where 6 out of 10 of the world's people live.  In the cola wars, Pepsi ads are not as prominent as Coke ads, . . . Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:39:44 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976823762 Joel Carillet 2006-10-25T13:39:44Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976816277 MORE PHOTOS OF THAT FANTASTIC CONTRAPTION, THE BICYCLE...   Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam   Kathmandu, Nepal   Lahore, Pakistan   Hue, Vietnam (my rental bike)   Luang . . . Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:45:08 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976816277 Joel Carillet 2006-10-15T15:45:08Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976812446 Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam Kunming, China Varanasi, India Parasi, Nepal Shigatze, Tibet Yangshuo, China Hekou, China (these women are Vietnamese, waiting in line to cross the border back into . . . Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:44:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976812446 Joel Carillet 2006-10-10T10:44:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976807275 THERE ARE A LOT OF BICYCLES ROAMING AROUND THIS WORLD.  HERE ARE PICTURES OF A FEW OF THEM... Beijing, China Taxila, Pakistan Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam New Delhi, India Kunming, China (parked . . . Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:54:01 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976807275 Joel Carillet 2006-10-03T11:54:01Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976801248 Laotian hands on the side of a boat on the Mekong River Some time back I got to thinking:  if I were one day to have an office, what image would I most want to frame and hang on the wall.  . . . Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:26:26 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976801248 Joel Carillet 2006-09-25T12:26:26Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976782087 I'm posting these pictures with only a minimum of commentary (mostly because I have a lot to do today here in Tennessee and shouldn't be spending time posting pictures about Tibet).  This . . . Sat, 26 Aug 2006 11:36:23 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976782087 Joel Carillet 2006-08-26T11:36:23Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976780551 It all began in 1990, though I suppose it could have been 1993 (my memory is torn between the two years).  The Nikes were on clearance at a shoe store in suburban Atlanta, and I think the . . . Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:59:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976780551 Joel Carillet 2006-08-23T11:59:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976777341 You could tell just by looking at the windows: Zongdian was a tough and gritty sort of town.  At least in the old quarter, the windows were splattered with mud, as if Earth herself were slinging . . . Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:12:28 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976777341 Joel Carillet 2006-08-16T10:12:28Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976775351 On a very hot August afternoon, my train pulled into Delhi from Agra and I took my first step in India's capital.  After finding a hotel for $3.60 a night in the backpacker district of . . . Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:58:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976775351 Joel Carillet 2006-08-11T18:58:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976773585   Motorbikes in Saigon, Vietnam; the Cathedral of Notre Dame is in the background.   There is a problem with automobiles, and I'm not talking about break-downs or pollution.  I'm . . . Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:29:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976773585 Joel Carillet 2006-08-07T17:29:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976769132 The following photographs were taken "through the windshield" during my 14-month overland journey across Asia.  They are posted in order of date taken.  Enjoy! Twenty minutes out . . . Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:07:16 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976769132 Joel Carillet 2006-07-22T21:07:16Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976768659 I've postponed a month-long plan to publish a photo essay from a 2003 trip I made to Gaza.  There are several reasons for this, most of them to do with being busy lately, but the primary reason . . . Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:27:50 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976768659 Joel Carillet 2006-07-21T02:27:50Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976767043 In reading this book I began to ask myself why even now, given the multitude of current and past governments that have committed atrocities, it is the Khmer Rouge that touches my most sensitive . . . Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:07:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976767043 Joel Carillet 2006-07-14T15:07:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976766727 The April day in 1975, in which the Braves beat the Astros 2-1 at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium, was not a good day for Loung Ung.  This young girl -- this child -- cried because April . . . Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:24:59 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976766727 Joel Carillet 2006-07-13T10:24:59Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976766514 There are both certain times and particular places where I grow angry to the extent that I am uncomfortable with myself.  I value feeling the range of human emotions, for this makes me feel . . . Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:43:14 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976766514 Joel Carillet 2006-07-12T09:43:14Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976766281   "My heart drops at the sight of Pithy's mom holding her corpse to her chest, weeping.  Pithy is limp in her arms, her blood soaking into her mom's blouse.  So much blood everywhere.  . . . Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:34:53 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976766281 Joel Carillet 2006-07-11T11:34:53Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976764409 Almost two years ago, while in the Vietnamese city of Hue, I rented a motorbike one afternoon to explore the surrounding countryside.  In one village I stopped and found a teenage girl loading . . . Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:07:43 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976764409 Joel Carillet 2006-07-03T12:07:43Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976764004 There are many good reasons to travel to Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic tucked away in the mountains of Central Asia.  One reason, at least if you are like me, is that you will finally master . . . Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:24:10 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976764004 Joel Carillet 2006-07-01T13:24:10Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976762294 I wrote this journal entry a few days before leaving Sumatra for Singapore.  I was at the end of two days beside Lake Maninjau, a crater lake not far from the town of Bukit Tinggi.  . . . Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:54:45 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976762294 Joel Carillet 2006-06-23T18:54:45Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976760691 I had come to Hong Kong by ferry from Macau, one hour to the west.  By the time I was checked for SARS, got my passport stamped, and found my way from the international terminal (on Hong Kong Island) . . . Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:38:24 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976760691 Joel Carillet 2006-06-16T20:38:24Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976758081 In 329 BC, when Alexander the Great first laid eyes on the cosmopolitan city of Samarkand, he said, "Everything I have heard about [Samarkand] is true, except that it's more beautiful than I . . . Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:06:52 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976758081 Joel Carillet 2006-06-06T16:06:52Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976756765 "We travel," says travel writer Pico Iyer, "to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate."  Reading about a place . . . Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:48:13 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976756765 Joel Carillet 2006-06-01T12:48:13Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976755636 Girl at sunrise walking along the moat surrounding the world's largest religious monument, Angkor Wat. Centuries ago, Cambodia was a great power and ruled over territory stretching from Vietnam . . . Sat, 27 May 2006 13:49:02 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976755636 Joel Carillet 2006-05-27T13:49:02Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976753896 Fyodor Dostoevsky was a perceptive observer of both man and nature.  The Russian novelist was a brilliant writer as well, and if you have not read anything by him perhaps you . . . Sun, 21 May 2006 02:08:17 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976753896 Joel Carillet 2006-05-21T02:08:17Z http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741945 "You must see the Bund at dawn," a British photographer in my hostel told me several times over the course of my week in Shanghai.  I was no stranger to the Bund, that beautiful facade . . . Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:31:12 GMT http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474976741945 Joel Carillet 2006-04-04T17:31:12Z