David Brooks in today's NYT explains why he is Jewish and a Christian or Christian whle remaining Jewish (the faith he

[Abolishinist]

19. Talk about timing!

I've been going through some older things lying around the house and happened upon a notepad given us by La Nouvelle Etoile, the barge we were on in Holland. What great memories, sounds like a very similar trip to yours. So many interesting day trips, the Keukenhof, Delft. I'm still fascinated by the flower auction in Aalsmeer, 274 acres (the size of 200 football fields) where on a typical weekday 43 million flowers and 5 million plants changing hands.

I remember "Wheatfields with Crows" at the Van Gogh Museum, one of my favorites of his there is "The Potato Eaters".

After this we spent several days in Bruges, a fun place!