Contact

Nancy and Jim Forest
Kanisstraat 5
1811 GJ Alkmaar
The Netherlands

Jim’s e-mail: jhforest (at) gmail.com / Nancy’s e-mail: forestflier (at) gmail.com
web: http://www.forestflier.com/
tel intl (+31-72) 515-418o
tel within NL: (072) 515-4180

What it’s like to see the Whole Earth from space January 12, 2019

A selection of quotations from astronauts, cosmonauts and others… I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of 100,000 miles their outlook could be fundamentally changed. That all-important border would be invisible, that noisy argument silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring […]

a modest proposal: wear a Whole Earth photo January 11, 2019

One of the important events of my life was receiving, while imprisoned for an anti-war protest, an original print of a NASA photograph of the Earth taken on the 16th of July 1969. It arrived shortly after the safe return of the Apollo 11 crew following their successful moon landing. This stunning image immediately became […]

Peacemaking: an aspiration not an achievement January 5, 2019

an interview with Alfred Hassler Alfred Hassler (1910-1991) was one of the major figures in the Fellowship of Reconciliation. In prison during World War II as a conscientious objector, he joined the FOR staff and went on to serve as editor of the Fellowship magazine and later as FOR executive secretary and general secretary of […]

No Room December 24, 2018

Brueghel the Elder’s “The Census at Bethlehem” was painted in our part of the world in 1566 and provides a window on 16th century life in the Low Countries. An unhaloed, blue-robed Mary is in the center. In the actual painting she is easily overlooked, just another figure in this densely-populated canvas. She is riding […]