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I apparently should have given them a title, but I didn\u2019t. \u00a0So we ended up with this rather unwieldy thing:<\/p>\n
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\u201cRemembering co-author Bill Hamblin\u2019s pursuit of sharing about the world\u2019s religions\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019m pleased, though, that the online version of the article includes a baker\u2019s dozen of the photographs that Bill furnished for prior columns. \u00a0They were often very valuable.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n This is one of the respects in which my solo continuation of the Hamblin\/Peterson column will be relatively impoverished: \u00a0I\u2019m simply not a photographer. \u00a0Many years ago, I went down into the jungle of lowland Guatemala, in the\u00a0Pet\u00e9n\u00a0Basin, to accompany supplies that the Maxwell Institute had been asked to provide for a BYU-involved archaeological dig that was going on at Piedras Negras<\/a>. \u00a0Among other preparations for the trip, including seeming gallons of insect repellant that proved to be remarkably ineffective, my wife furnished me with a new camera and many rolls of film. \u00a0(It was, as I say, a very long time ago.) \u00a0She told me to be sure of taking many photos. \u00a0In the end, I came back with three \u2014 and, each time I took one, it was because I suddenly remembered my wife\u2019s exhortation and thought to myself about how displeased she would be with me if I were to return without any pictures.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Bill should have been on that trip. \u00a0He would have done it justice. \u00a0And not only in terms of photography.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I miss him. \u00a0I expect that I always will.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I share with you a very short but quite touching Iranian film \u2014 roughly 2.5 minutes in length and entitled Qarar-e Panjshanbe<\/em>\u00a0(Thursday Appointment<\/em>) \u2014 that evidently won a recent award at an international film festival in Luxor, Egypt. \u00a0It is the work of a twenty-year-old Iranian filmmaker by the name of Syed Mohammad Reza Kheradmand:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n