The 2nd castle was full of beautiful mosaics. Qusayr Amra is described by our Lonely Planet guidebook as being "famous for its hedonistic (and somewhat risque) 8th century frescoes of win, women and wild good times, but I loved the geometric style of this floor and the animals best. There were frescoes of woman that may have been naked or artfully, but I was drawn to the animals more. Oddly we overheard one Spanish tour guide saying that Jesus was on the ceiling of the frigidarium. The guide who took us to the room showed us the man as representing middle age, there was also a young boy and an old man. I think our guide was correct. Why would someone put Jesus in an Roman/Islamic bathroom, especially over your head staring at you?
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It's been a while. Well, life has marched on for all of us. It's never
really perfect, but we have been fairly fortunate. Young One started high
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5 years ago
Don't you love the call to prayer? I don't think I've often been so moved as I was by that. We were in Jerusalem way up high when the mid day call to prayer began down in the old city. But it came from many many mosques all at slightly different times. It was a choir of prayer. I'll never forget it.
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