Posts by Kendra Peek
The mushy post.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine Last week, I experienced my third graduation. The first was high school, second was college, and third was graduating from the GLS program. Granted, there was much less pomp and circumstance in this one than in the last one. But we still got a nifty certificate. This will be my last blog entry from Cyprus. Today is...
Read MoreEat ’til you die.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. ~Voltaire The ultimate focus of the documentary our group has been filming was on the food of Cyprus, specifically the meze. A meze is a massive meal. Think of a feast, a Thanksgiving meal and a cookout, then throw in all the food from the freezer and you have the idea of a...
Read MoreA small world and the butcher shop.
Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~Author Unknown Growing up on a farm teaches a person where things like hamburgers truly originate. I understand that the cattle raised there are not really meant to be pets. It’s a fact of life that one comes to accept when you grow up in a rural area. Armed with this knowledge (or perhaps because of it), I prefer to keep the thought of those cows in the...
Read MoreLiving on the edge.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Cyprus is an island divided. This is easily seen when looking at any map. Despite that, there is little that would reflect this division when wandering around the southern part of the island, the part recognized worldwide as...
Read MoreSmiles from the wedding photos.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu Thursday I was talent. Or untalent, as I choose to say it. The other group made their selections on who was going to be on camera when we visited the cheesemaker, Elpida. Aaron and I were the lucky ones. (I hope, for their sakes, there was some usable footage.) While the process is interesting,...
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