We Saw Warsaw ...

Met up with some friends in Warsavia and Krakovia for a few glorious days of music festivals, fellowship and Polish alcohol (Zywiec and Wodka Zoladkowa Gorzka) … enjoying the multiple realities of an emerging capitalist Eastern Europe that is still shedding its Soviet skin … hoping that what survived the cold war doesn’t fall victim to market forces ...


Examining the lounges that now repopulate the Kazimierz district (the old jewish ghetto) … Attending mass in one of Pope JP II’s old churches in Rynek Glowny and then crossing the street for a coffee at one of Lenin’s favorite old cafes ...


A disturbingly gorgeous day at Auschwitz … while I can see why “writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’’ (Theodor Adorno), it seems as though nature doesn’t always agree …