Pseudotherapy

I’ve written before about how the internet keeps shrinking our world. Today I share with you a prime example of that, and how blogging in particular shortens the distances between people.

The photo on the left shows me at the age of 4, astride a fish-shaped wall in the ruins of Sabratha, an ancient Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. During the years my dad was stationed at Wheelus Air Base in Libya, my family made several treks to explore these breathtaking ruins, and the photos my parents took have always been family favorites.

Earlier this year I became acquainted with KhadijaTeri, a Libyan blogger who found my blog due to my occasional references to Tripoli. Reading her blog has been a joy for me, bringing back memories from my childhood and often clarifying the confusion of a child’s recollections. This weekend I discovered that she also has an extensive photostream on Flicker, and spent hours “revisiting” the sites of my youth. In the process, I came across the photo on the right, which KhadijaTeri took in 2006.

My friend photographed the same fish, 50 years later. And all these years, I thought it was gray!

[tags]Libya, Sabratha, bloggers, small world[/tags]

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