The Road to the Big Good – Part Three Saturday 16 May 2026 Zestaponi, Imereti, Georgia The train stopped at Kutaisi Airport station, but I somehow managed to sleep through that. I will save my descriptions of Kutaisi for next week’s planned stay there. Seeing yet another rather uninspiring railway station, reminiscent of Batumi’s own… Continue reading The soul of a place
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Lament of the Akedah
Saturday 6 December 2025 Ankara, Türkiye There are stories humanity tells itself when the world grows too large to understand. Among the oldest, the Akedah — the Binding of Isaac — stands as a wound passed from generation to generation. A father raises a knife over his own child, convinced that the divine has demanded… Continue reading Lament of the Akedah