Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Mysterious Ways

    The Compassion of Giants

    Jan 24, 2019 4 minutes
    By Elena Tafone ASSISTANT EDITOR

    My mom and I stood at the ship’s bow, braced against the chop. It was July, but a cold wind was ripping through Monterey Bay. Perfect weather, our tour guide assured us. My family was on vacation in California, and we were on a mission to see one thing—humpback whales. My mom, a pharmacist, studied marine biology in college. She’d been itching to go whale watching ever since. Now that we were on the boat, she could barely sit still. “I just love whales,” she said. “They’re so majestic.”

    My mom isn’t alone in her love of those creatures. Whales have long fascinated

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Mysterious Ways

    Mysterious Ways2 min read
    Editor’s Note
    For this final issue of Mysterious Ways magazine, I asked the staff to reprint our feature on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles (page 11). I learned about the fascinating structures in college while reading The Ascent of Man by science writer Jacob Bro
    Mysterious Ways3 min read
    Not Alone
    The phone rang late one night. It was my brother Kerry. “Joe, Sammy’s plane was shot down during the air strike,” he said. Sammy, our mutual friend, was a lieutenant colonel and fighter pilot with the Kuwait Air Force. Kerry quickly filled me in on t
    Mysterious Ways3 min read
    The Recovery
    It was an ordinary Bible, worn at the edges, with a plain cover. On the front, embossed in gold lettering, was my brother’s name: LANGDON HORN. It was the Bible he’d taken with him to rehab. The Bible he’d relied on to get clean and sober. Then it di

    Related Books & Audiobooks