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o him we bring our shattered selves to us he gives his word advent is lament but that s not where it ends for god in sending his own son restores our souls again photo by min an on pexels com november 26 2025 tourism encounter and lament posted by bob ritzema under choices lifestyles relationships travel tags cairo christianity culture egypt khan el khalili bazaar martin buber spirituality tourism leave a comment in october i traveled to egypt as a member of a tour group sponsored by the alumni association of my alma mater calvin university the tour led by a seminary professor and an egyptian guide brought us to the most popular sites the pyramids in giza and saqqara the karnak temple complex in luxor the valley of the kings the temple of horus the khan el khalili bazaar as well as some places of particular interest to our group such as the cave churches on mokattam mountain and the nearby zabbaleen the coptic christian community that collects garbage for cairo i found the experience not only enhanced my appreciation of ancient egypt but also gave me some sense of modern egypt its struggles successes and failures we couldn t have avoided encountering modern egypt even if we wanted to our bus took us back and forth through cairo with its dilapidated high rises with laundry hanging from open windows and the teeming multitude of people on its streets arriving at museums or archaeological sites we almost always had to walk through a gauntlet of street vendors waving their wares in front of us and announcing the remarkable bargains they could provide for us shops outside the temple of hatshepsut luxor the first day our egyptian guide told us that at tourist sites we would be surrounded by aggressive sellers she instructed us to walk past not making eye contact not responding we needed to stay together as a group she explained plus most of the wares hawked by street vendors were inferior we would have time enough to shop at places where better quality merchandise would be on offer we did as she said and we did have other opportunities to shop and at least a little opportunity to interact with egyptians most of the egyptians we met were either clerks at the shops to which we had been brought or people in the hospitality industry hotel clerks bellmen waiters barkeepers and the like these were invariably polite and eager to please however i couldn t help but wondering what it would have been like to have a wider range of contacts what do ordinary egyptians think of tourists what are their lives like what would they like outsiders to know about them another member of our tour group was reading the new tourist by paige mcclanahan a book that discusses both positive and negative aspects of tourism and that suggests ways both travelers and the places they visit can benefit from such journeys i was able to borrow the book and skim several chapters mcclanahan advises we need to encounter each other on an equal footing and offer up something of ourselves even as we ask something of the people and places we visit how to do that though i suspect a naive american wandering the streets of cairo seeking encounters with the residents could wind up in trouble the places tourists are taken are at least safe there s a significant police presence making sure of that but what kind of encounter could i have with the street vendors that surrounded us is there any sense in which we would be on an equal footing what could i offer that would be beneficial to them other than cash so yes it is probably best to walk past the vendors not looking at them or acknowledging their cries pretending that they are merely obstacles to be circumvented but that is wrenching they are human beings made in god s image endowed by their creator with dignity and worth who am i to give them no more regard than i would a rock or tree in my path our last day in cairo when we visited the the khan el khalili bazaar we were given a half hour to wander among the shops again we were bombarded with sellers but at least we had a little time to stop and interact i tried to give at least brief responses to some of the men almost all the shopkeepers and their assistants were male that i passed i did buy a few things and to many others i expressed some small degree of appreciation yes that s a lovely shirt or scarf or carpet but i ve spent my cash and i don t have room in my suitcase it wasn t anything like an i thou encounter as martin buber would advise us to have but it mostly seemed i you in character rather than i it after getting some response the sellers usually relented perhaps they wanted to sell but failing that just wanted to be acknowledged and what about all the previous i it interactions at tourist sites when someone spoke and i ignored them the best i could come up with was not to change my external behavior but to be mindful of what i was doing to my heart for to ignore another human who wants to interact with me does diminish both me and him it was a harmful mini lesson i was teaching to both myself and the person a false lesson that some people don t matter i didn t repent since i had already decided not to change my behavior i did lament though in scripture laments are addressed to god during times of distress such as during war oppression sickness famine or injustice it is an acknowledgment that we can t make things right by ourselves and a cry to god asking him to do so here then is my lament god i see that this manner of interaction is damaging both me and the other person we are each constrained by cultural social economic and linguistic conditions that prevent us from making things right help us protect us from harm khan el khalili bazaar july 24 2025 what ships are for a poem posted by bob ritzema under choices courage personal poetry relationships tags choices dating poetry relationships risk 2 comments in january i started dating a woman i met on a group tour things were going well but i was hesitant to commit i m old and have been unattached for decades what was i doing considering such a huge life change oddly one thing that helped me become more serious about a future together was an old bookmark that greenpeace had sent me years ago on one side was a picture of their sailing ship on the other was a quote a ship in the harbor is safe but that s not what ships are built for the relationship has progressed and we are engaged i wrote a poem reflecting on the quote here it is a ship that s harbored is kept safe one on the seas is not but do i want to die by waves or stay tied up and rot the wind and waves may capsize me of that i m terrified but worse would be the mothballed life preserved to slowly die if we embark on unknown seas we run the risk of hurt but never to essay a life and die alone is worse we have been docked for overlong that s not what ships are for together let s cast off the lines and sail for distant shores march 22 2025 the third week of march a poem posted by bob ritzema under hope poetry tags equinox seasons spring waiting weather winter leave a comment we re in the time between seasons here in wisconsin winter abating but spring not yet arrived here s a poem describing this time the sun is sliding slowly north emboldened light has swept away vast sectors of night winter s worst invasion is repulsed and now it only sends periodic snowy mid night forays that then get swept away at dawn though the ground is liberated still it sleeps grass insensate as the stones i have to bundle when i walk the dogs for the remaining but relenting cold is aggravated by the bite of ruthless winds rough savages of spring the equinox arrives a tightrope strung between the seasons we re balanced between weariness and transformation march 18 2025 memorization a poem posted by bob ritzema under faith personal poetry religion tags faith memorization poetry religion spirituality 1 comment photo by luis quintero on pexels com i continue to write poems i sometimes try to capture some experience i ve had most often those are about the prosaic events of ordinary life for example i tried to capture the experience of trying to memorize a psalm here s how i put it the words slip through my fingers like water down a drain drying up in minutes i start from naught again i wish words were imprinted completely stamped in mind upon the first recital then memory would shine perhaps there s some advantange to such a leaky sieve there s worth that s gained by effort and hard won fruit is sweet as i return each morning though most is still unknown the little that has thickened and been retained has grown when words congeal to solid their presence is a gift for now some of the psalter comes easy to my lips september 6 2024 communal living posted by bob ritzema under community hope lifestyles relationships tags community households housing loneliness spiritual formation spirituality leave a comment photo by lisa fotios on pexels com time magazine s website recently published an article about communal living the author lola miholland has lived in communities of four or more unrelated roommates for the last 17 years the initial reason for living with others was financial she and her roommates live in portland oregon where housing is quite expensive she reports many of our neighbors within the working class can t get a mortgage minimum wage workers can t afford rent on market rate apartments and the number of people without shelter rises all the time group living isn t a solution to housing inequity but sharing costs can make the difference between being able to afford a roof over our heads and living on the street milholland finds other benefits to communal living though learning how to share space thoughtfully and making time for others can combat the currents of isolation alienation loneliness and apathy group living can also make it easier to live lighter on the land spend less money by sharing resources like that car and those appliances and divide domestic activities milholland writes thoughtfully about the benefits of sharing common spaces having meals together and coming home to others after a difficult day i ve lived in a communal household for almost two years now and have found similar benefits i ve also noticed the costs a housemate is in the shower when i need to use the bathroom there s no space in the fridge because someone has accumulated too many groceries a time of productivity is interrupted by others coming into the space i m using living together conserves resources and is rich in connections but it s also inconvenient it s tempting to prefer convenience to connectedness the community that i m in was established eight years ago as a christian community we appreciate the economies and social benefits of life together but also see community as a vehicle for spiritual growth when the community is functioning as intended we pray together seek close relationships with each other show hospitality to outsiders and engage in disciplines aimed at helping us mature in our spiritual lives the ideal is a good one but we constantly fall short we don t take time for each other avoid coming to the times of prayer or isolate ourselves we look to other things to fill the emptiness we all experience when that happens the community provides inconvenience without overriding benefits milholland mentions this danger i ve lived in a group setting that wasn t built on a common commitment to each other and it was worse than living alone in gardening you plant and tend without immediate benefit hoping for eventual bounty our community is our garden unless we are constantly cultivating it even when growth isn t evident we will end up impoverished and hungry i regularly wonder whether the potential harvest is worth the vexation most of the time i decide it is mulholland s time article is apparently taken from her memoir entitled group living and other recipes a memoir here s the link to the article https time com 7016352 group living essay utm_medium email utm_source sfmc utm_campaign newsletter brief default ac utm_content 20240904 body et_rid 207264455 lctg 207264455 april 12 2024 where i walk a poem posted by bob ritzema under personal poetry wholeness tags neighborhoods observing poetry seeing leave a comment i ve been reflecting on how the places where we live affect us what they teach us whether or not we re paying attention and what we usually miss that s present nonetheless here s how that plays out in the place i live the harambee neighborhood of milwaukee wisconsin i walk where i live i might prefer to step out the front door onto woodland paths beside a river s stately flow or under mountain minarets or as i did before into a grid of streets named for the founding fathers sloped above the city s throbbing heart but i moved on and now i walk among debris accumulated by indifference paper scraps plastic cups branded fast food wrappings and discarded lids that look at me through unstrawed irises now and then a car will growl along the street sometimes with a poked out headlight missing grill or plastic sheeting taped to where a window once had been last week i had to step around a woman sleeping on the sidewalk perhaps passed out from something taken in when i walk i see all this but also something else the elegance these houses must once have had their resolute construction that s lasted past a century the shadows of once splendid gardens the homes are tattered now with peeling paint or weathered walls still they retain some residue of dignity this is where i live and walk it s a decent place especially when i see more than eyes can see next page pages about me about the blog my other blog i blog on issues related to emotional well being in the second half of life at http beyondhalfway wordpress com quote a table a chair a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy albert einstein recent posts practice graduation thomas a poem tourism assimilation 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