by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Global/Community
Published Nov. 2002 issue of Hope Magazine LISTENING to John Francis recount his fifty-six years, you might not guess that he was silent for seventeen of them. Looking at his dreadlocks and gold earring, you wouldn’t imagine that he once had a desk job with the U.S....
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Global/Community
Published in the November 2002 issue of Hope magazine A society without structure, the Ogiek have long roved the highland Mau forests of Kenya hunting and gathering honey, needing neither chief nor council. Now they are fighting for their lands and their lives. And,...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Originally published in the 1998 San Francisco Bay Guardian Living Late in Madrid Cairo’s Slow Fast Finding Peace in Israel Jordan: Jewel of Arabia Turkish Hospitality Bulgarian Mysteries Legends of Romania Hungarian Rhapsody China’s New Revolution My Life...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Originally published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian The Avenue of the Giants splits the redwood groves so dramatically it seems Moses paved the road with a wave of his cane. I imagine the Sinkyone Indians, who lived here for thousands of years, hunting and...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Originally published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian “”Mojave Desert!” Bill called out from behind the wheel, somewhere in the center of the night. He and I are the only ones awake on this desert caravan to Death Valley, the Green Tortoise’s...
