CAPPADOCIA IN GAVEA
Oswaldo’s work as a logician and philosopher has taken us to many interesting places, Athens, Paris, Bucharest, Sevilla, to mention a few, but the most interesting and splendid trip was to Turkey in 2008, where we spent a week in Istanbul, while Oswaldo and Keith Lehrer, another philosopher from the University of Arizona, gave several lectures. We then traveled around the country, ending up in the magnificent landscape of Cappadocia, visiting the famous cave dwellings there. I wrote about our trip here: http://www.siriinturkey.blogspot.com/ At home the other day, I happened to look up to discover a couple of wasps busy building a papery nest of open cells, teetering on the edge of a lamp on our veranda. It didn’t seem like a very desirable location for a dwelling, swaying at the end of the wire of a small clay pendant next to a bright LED lamp, but the builders seemed unperturbed by my presence and very focused on their work. Truth to say, I was not surprised. Throug...