On Today We Went to a Baha’i Gathering: Thank goodness I am here
By george wesley dannells on Jul 9, 2008 in Baha'i Views
Her travel post makes me want to take a road trip that ends up at a Baha’i gathering somewhere far away. -gw
The only times I have felt almost as small as I did in New Brunswick were in Mongolia and Namibia … both of which have vast sparsely populated landscapes. Scale does matter. But something else matters too. Namibia did not feel as empty because there were so many wild animals moving and grazing in herds in the grasslands along the roads. The occasional warthog raced the vehicle, and the wild birds were so unafraid they sometimes became supper. And in Mongolia you would pass lone herdsmen traveling with their animals, and clusters of round gers … the temporary settlements of nomadic families … often enough to know you would never be completely stranded. New Brunswick felt much emptier to me. …
Last night Kerry and Maurice took me out to Kingsport to wade in the red mud. It was not an entirely pleasurable experience as the red goo oozed up between my toes, but the village is quaint, the temperature was a good ten degrees cooler than it had been in Wolfville, and the ice cream was yummy..
Today we went to a Baha’i gathering.
Thank goodness I am here!
