by Karl Fickling | Oct 12, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
Summer is over. School has started again. And I want to end my travelogue where I began—in Hawaii, with a forgiveness story. I started our journey together with my recollection of meeting Pearl Harbor survivor Richard Fiske. He helped create a fellowship of...
by Karl Fickling | Sep 15, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
I was thinking about closing out my short, travel fantasy series. So far, I have journeyed back to Hawaii (writing about forgiveness), to France (hope), and through health care (priorities), but then I actually got to travel! So, this travel journal isn’t just about...
by Karl Fickling | Aug 10, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
Travel is not always about some exotic geographical location. My wife and I have recently taken the journey down the road of surgery. A few years ago, I observed that she had had five surgeries. I had had five surgeries. Mine were 100% self-inflicted. Hers were 100% ...
by Karl Fickling | Jun 10, 2021 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
Our guide was saying goodbye in the lobby of Le Meridien hotel in Nice, France. As she accepted tips, Marie said something rather off-hand. “If you look down the Promenade des Anglais pedestrianized walkway, to the barricade at the start of our block, you will see...
by Karl Fickling | May 13, 2021 | Faith & Heritage
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime....
