"There is some good in this world…and it's worth fighting for." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
My boys, who seem to have spent much of their young lives squabbling, somehow found detente
while staying at my great-grandparents’ farm near the town of Gvarv in Telemark, Norway.
Perhaps it was being out of their normal routine? Or perhaps it was the serenity of their surroundings?
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity. 
The late afternoon sun casts long shadows as people walk home in the rural Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.
Sometimes they meet friends along the way and stop to socialize and to rest after a long day of labor. 
Eventually, they must pick up their loads again and continue home in the lengthening shadows before darkness descends on the valley.
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge Shadowed.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy.
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs. See more responses here.
“All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family…”
– Mahatma Gandhi
I took this photo of a young girl coming home from school in Yaounde, Cameroon. It is a photo that always reminds me that, as Gandhi once said, all of humanity is one family.
To see more responses to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Humanity, click here.
Just getting around can be an adventure in and of itself in many parts of the world. In Cameroon, the motorcycle taxis are used by many people to get around the city of Douala. Most motorcycle taxis carry two passengers, but a few times I saw three passengers. I took this photo from the back of a taxi speeding in the opposite direction. There were hundreds of motorcycle taxis heading into the city, so I just snapped a couple photos at random. I was shocked that this photo captured the scene as well as it did!
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Adventure. Follow the link to see more entries!
When you look out at the ocean, do you ever wonder who is on the other side? I do! So when we were at the beach in South Carolina, I felt compelled to look it up. Turns out that Morocco is directly across the Atlantic from South Carolina. I had recently been to Morocco, so I could vividly picture what was on the ocean as I walked along the shore.
For this week’s Photo Challenge: Dialogue, we are asked to bring two photos into dialogue. The first photo, taken on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, looks directly east across the Atlantic Ocean towards Morocco. The second photo, taken in Rabat, looks directly west towards South Carolina. The photographic dialogue even reflects the time difference; the first photo was taken in the early morning, which is afternoon in Morocco.
Sometimes we need a reminder that our beautiful world is really not so big after all. And that often our connections can be greater than our differences.
What to find out what’s on the other side of the ocean from where you are? The Washington Post published a quick reference – check it out here!
The summer sun sets over the Sandwich Range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Silhouette.
Inaugurated on 18 November, 2008 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the “Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations” room (better known as Room XX) is the home of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Part of my work involves advocacy at the United Nations’ human rights mechanisms, so Room XX is a place I visit regularly. (Photos are not allowed, but I snuck these photos with my phone anyway.)
Spanish abstract artist Miquel Barceló created a a massive work of art for the ceiling of the room with paint composed of pigments from around the world. More than 30 tons of paint were sprayed on the 1,500-square-meter dome ceiling, with the many layers of paint creating a textured rainbow of stalactites. Depending on where you are in the room, the colors of the stalactites change based on perspective.
Barceló describes his work in this way:
“All of it is a sea upside down, but it is also a cave.
The complete union of opposites,the ocean surface of the Earth and its most concealed cavities.”
The Human Rights Warrior 
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