My Marrakesh

One never knows what “the blog­ging girl” will report next. I have been read­ing this gor­geous blog, writ­ten by an equally stun­ning woman, for well over a year now. She trav­els to places I never heard of and brings back gems of color and life; always heav­ily laden with warmth and per­spec­tive. Today’s post at My Mar­rakesh - which is the ongo­ing saga of an Amer­i­can fam­ily build­ing a lux­ury hotel called Peacock’s Pavil­ion in Morocco — is called The Bishkek: and leaps of faith.

Maryam spends a lot of time in air­ports. She writes, “The blog­ging girl was known to start con­ver­sa­tion with vir­tual strangers. She was inter­ested in peo­ple, you see. What had brought them to this place? Why were they there? She turned to the man in front of her, his hair clipped short, his hands in his pock­ets, his blue eyes miss­ing noth­ing. He told her that he was in tran­sit at the US mil­i­tary base nearby. In tran­sit where?.…”

Never one to pass up a story or meet a stranger, she has the where­withal to splat­ter the meat of the mat­ter on the page wher­ever she goes.

Today it is about fam­ily and honor and love. How did she man­age to say so much in such a small post? Well, that’s her spe­cialty; and always with just the right amount of mys­tery. I like the way she passes through the world. You’ll love this post. Con­grat­u­la­tions, Maryam. You’ve writ­ten the The Ris­ing Blogger’s Post Of The Day.

Review writ­ten by MIMI LENOX.