Events have conspired to keep me from posting for almost two weeks, but I’m finally back with another travel theme. With vacuous world “leaders” promoting and perpetrating hatred, cruelty, greed, violence and ignorance, it’s proving hard to feel very festive in the run up to the holidays, so I am turning to one of my go-to feel-good Christmas movies for inspiration…
…and am offering up a pictorial homage to love from my travels, starting off with the Phinney Ridge Holiday Tree in Seattle.
Robert Indiana’s Love statue in Philadelphia – it’s not actually in Love Park (aka JFK Plaza) at the moment, it has been removed temporarily and is being repainted. It was repainted once before, back in 1988, but the city got the colours wrong – it was originally red, green and purple, but the purple had faded so much they mistook it and substituted light blue instead. When Indiana visited the statue in 1995 he noted the change, but it is only now, with the whole plaza undergoing renovation, that the city is going to restore it to the original purple.
Coffee Italian-style complete with flirty waiter 🙂 …
… and still in Italy, in the heart of Rome, the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin houses the skull of St. Valentine.
Last but not least, some words from Martin Luther King Jr to drive out darkness and hate.
I would love for you to hop aboard the love train with your own version of this theme. If you would like to join in (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel theme: Love
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❤ Ailsa
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. — Dalai Lama
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. – Mahatma Gandhi
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