THE TOMB OF TAMERLANE
This is the interior of “Gur Emir,” the tomb of Tamerlane (1336-1405) in Samarkand, the great Silk Road city now in Uzbekistan. Tamerlane was the last of the nomadic conquerors of Eurasia, a Turkic-Mongol whose conquests extended from New Delhi to eastern Turkey.
Gur Emir is only one of a multitude of extraordinary sights in legendary Samarkand that make being here a life-memorable experience. We’ll be here during our exploration of Central Asia this May. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #59 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
WHERE’S HILLARY?
NY Post this morning 2/15
Hillary Clinton is in big trouble.
With revelations from Special Counsel John Durham's investigation that her 2016 campaign literally paid tech companies to spy on the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, the Trump residence, and the Trump White House, the question now is what kind of felony charges are coming.
Curiously, she's made herself scarce these past few days. Her normally active Twitter account has gone silent. But it doesn't mean she's hiding in shame. She's all full of defiance and mockery. At least just before the story broke.
GLOBAL COVID VACCINATION IS A CATASTROPHIC CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
From the closing weeks of 2020 through February 1, 2022, more than sixty percent of the world’s population was injected with Covid-19 vaccines.
This means that in a period of fewer than fourteen months more than 4.7 billion people received at least one Covid shot. Tens of millions received as many as four doses. To begin administering a vaccine to the general population within such a short trial period was wholly unprecedented in the annals of modern medicine.
Untold millions across the world have already suffered severe side effects from these injections in the short term. And we do not yet know what the medium- or long-term consequences may be because these vaccines have not been trialed for such time frames. The Covid-19 vaccination crusade is a global crime the like of which the world has not yet seen.
THE TIBETAN KINGDOM OF LO
This is one of the magical places we experience on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. An independent kingdom for 650 years in the remote Mustang region of Nepal, it is one of the last places of traditional Tibetan culture on earth, unchanged for centuries. There are sky-caves here – apartment complexes carved out of vertical cliffs 2,000 years ago – Drok-pa nomads in the high pastures, spectacular sacred ceremonies, all in a mysteriously beautiful setting where the Himalayas meet the Tibetan Plateau. We’ll be here again next April. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #86 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
A VALENTINE PARADISE
Happy Valentine’s Day! You’ve seen this photo of mine in a previous Glimpse entitled “Hawaii in Europe.” It’s an example of the astounding beauty of the Azores in the European Atlantic. As Hawaii is a part of the US, the Azores are a part of Portugal – since the 1430s first discovered uninhabited.
And so is another Atlantic Paradise, Madeira. Together they are a pair of Atlantic Paradises that, if you do it right, make for an ultimate romantic getaway for a Valentine couple – or for anyone in search of a haven of peaceful serenity, or wants to enjoy a plethora of adventurous sports and activities. After all, a paradise is supposed to offer something fabulous for most everyone, right?
The good news is you can experience all of this by joining Rebel and me on our exploration of the Atlantic Paradises of Madeira and the Azores this June. All the info is here: Atlantic Paradises Details and Photos 2020 Jun 24-Jul 2. The photos will blow you away.
You get there quickly on a non-stop from Boston, like flying from Boston to Denver. We are going to have a paradisical time together. Luxury at very reasonable cost. This is paradise that’s irresistible. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #189 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH RITUALS OF PREPARATION
Twyla Tharp dance choreography
Change and growth is, first and foremost, an active, creative process. Successful people actually use less willpower than less successful people, because they set up effective rituals, appointments, and accountability structures that build into their day what they would otherwise need willpower to achieve.
Twyla Tharp, the great dancer and choreographer, in her book The Creative Habit, talks about “rituals of preparation,” what creative people do that prepares them to work. This is hers:
GOOD GUESS
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – THE HIDDEN NORTH FACE OF KANCHENJUNGA
This is one of the truly great mountain sights on earth yet never seen – except for professional mountaineers and those on our Himalaya Helicopter Expeditions. Kanchenjunga at 28,169 feet (8,586 meters) is the world’s 3rd highest mountain (after Everest and K2), with a drop from summit (the peak on the left in front of the cloud) to the glacier at it base of 12,000 feet straight down.
You can be awed by such a picture, but to actually physically be here, to witness this magnificence personally so that it is forever a part of your life, is to feel a depth of awe that has to be experienced to be understood. Kanchenjunga is part of the Himalayas, now on the border of Nepal and Sikkim, once an independent kingdom now absorbed into India. We fly right up the North Face, and into the Amphitheatre of the Southwest Face as well.
We’ll be here for sure this coming April. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #31 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
HALF-FULL REPORT 02/11/22
Like father, like son. There’s a reason why millions of Canadians think their current prime minister is not the son of their previous one, Pierre Trudeau, and call him “Justin Castro” instead.
Because his mother and Pierre’s wife, Margaret Trudeau, was notoriously promiscuous, idolized Castro, was on an “undisclosed island” in the Caribbean (see link) in April, 1971, and Justin was born 8½ months later on December 25. Here the Trudeaus are with Fidel in Havana on a later visit. She sure is friendly with him, isn’t she?
The Justin Castro mantra is popular in Canada right now because not only does he look like the Communist Cuban but is behaving like him. In a parliamentary system, a majority vote of the Members can remove a Prime Minister from office. Sure looks like that’s soon to be Justin Castro’s political fate. Wish it were that easy in America? Well…..
SKYE’S LINKS 02/10/22
Canada's Glorious Revolution:
Canada gets it right with massive passive resistance:
Fact Vs. Fiction: On the Ground with Canada’s Freedom Convoy
More good sense from Canadian Truckers:
Exclusive: Freedom Convoy Is the Opposition to 'Communist Liberals' and 'Socialist Conservatives'
Canada! The comments on logistics are especially to the point; this operation has been planned with exquisite precision, right down to the bouncy castles for the children, the hot tubs and saunas, and the truckers bringing in hay to feed the cops' horses. This is a compilation of reports by TTPer Dagny on her site dagnyintel.com: