Glad Hearts

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frédéric Amiel

If you find yourself traveling from the US to Africa and want the shortest distance, what state in the USA is closest to Africa? Florida? Nope, that’s 1,000 miles farther than the closest state. “The title of ‘closest US state to Africa’ belongs to Maine and, specifically, a peninsula called Quoddy Head .” While the closest point from Florida to Africa is about 4,085 miles, the lighthouse on Quoddy Head, Maine, is about 3,154 miles to Africa.

About the author

Henri Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic. Born in Geneva in 1821, Amiel was descended from a Huguenot family that moved to Switzerland following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.