World Map

When I graduated from college my fiance's parents got me a graduation gift they knew I wanted.  A world map.  We had a backing put on it and we have put it, or a map like it, up wherever we lived.  We have in fact lived in various places of the world.  But even if we only lived in one small town, like say Nazareth, with a world map we can know so many other towns, cities, countries, oceans.  Our kids get to see the world even day, even if only subliminally.  Of course world maps change.  Africa has been divided up many different ways, and even the way it is divided up now makes little sense to the tribe it divides.  You can see Australia and the source of iocane powder.  You can see that it truly is a bad idea to get involved in a land war in Asia.  You want to see the rivers of the world - the Amazon, the Nile, the Mississippi, and so many others - look.  Feast your eyes on this world we live in, from Kazakhstan to Western Sahara, from Walla Walla, Washington to Mombassa, Kenya, from Mount Everest to Lake Tanganyika.  So many places to go.  And it shows us what many times we need so desperately to know - we are so so so small, no matter how big we think we are.