The song reminds me of my young days.

When I hear that song I remember my youth.

lt lt A Song of Ascents. gt gt Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they have not prevailed against me.

And before I'd even decided to make storytelling my career, I can now see key things that happened in my youth that really sort of opened my eyes to certain things about story.

But perhaps learning of Margaret Thatcher s death in this place is grimly appropriate, because it made me remember the imprisoned society of my youth that Thatcher did so much to set free.

When I visited Malaysian campuses as a young man in the 1960 s, few Malay Muslim women wore the hijab . Today, on the same campuses, almost all do.

By way of introduction, the author confesses ...It so chanced that some years ago, in my younger days, whether of authorship or life, I felt the desire to make myself acquainted with the true origins and tenets of the singular sect known by the name of Rosicrucians.

Specifically, I as a person who's been a professional nature photographer my whole adult life, am firmly of the belief that photography, video, film have tremendous powers for helping us understand and shape the way we think about nature and about ourselves in relationship to nature.

You may imagine, then, the powerful memories that I felt when I visited the Mwandama Millennium Village in the deeply impoverished southern African country of Malawi. As in my youth, I saw once again the challenges and hardship of rural poverty.