A Quiet Divide

Dan Healy

A Quiet Divide
by Roger Colombik
ISBN: 1-891386-43-3
Library of Congress Number 2005907308

When most of us travel we are insulated from the local culture in the cocoon of tourist, military assignment, or business or government official. Roger Colombik suffers no such limitation as he wanders through the Balkans, the Middle East, Poland, and other countries.

We had the privilege of visiting with Roger Colombik recently and hearing of his adventures first hand. He will wander into a village listening for English. If he hears English he will solicit the speaker as his interpreter and walk up to strangers and start to talk and take pictures. This book contains his impressions from those conversations.

As the father of a spina bifida child, in some way I might be able to share the feelings of The Horseman. I would like to telephone him as the author did Djevat.

In this book is a wonderful quote from Dr. Ivan Dejanov of Skopje, Macedonia:

“The truth will always survive generation to generation. I don’t have fifteen years to chase philosophy...”

We probably don’t either.

This is a short book, but should be read slowly and often and thought about. This book is also self-published and can be purchases from the author. He can be contacted at:

Roger Colombik
PO Box 2308
Wimberley, TX 78676
512–847-9549
colombik@gte.net