Our God's Day celebration in Tunisia

On December 31 and January 1, we read a speech by Rev. Moon, sang much and celebrated with a little cornucopia of fruit, nuts and sweets, then traveled south with our neighbor and a close friend.

We visited Dougga, a Roman ruins, but were as struck by the starkly simple life of the farmers there as by the antiquities.

Then we visited Kairouan, the ancient religious center of the Maghreb or Islamic North Africa. The mosque was built in the same century (the 7th) that Mohammed fled for his life from Mecca to Medina. It’s an old city at heart, and the cars and power lines seem an awkward adjunct