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BEACHES -THE LIFEGUARDS SIT IN THE MARGINS
Blouberg Beach – Unsplash Charle Fourie I am coming to the end of this Series on Margins, which has been the theme for the year. I wanted to give a voice to those who have found themselves sidelined and pushed to the margins, mostly through circumstances and...
END OF AN ERA
-These past two weeks have seen the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the great pageantry that only the British can do well to honor her life. I have watched with interest as the week of mourning passed, the lying-in-state, through the Service at Westminster, the ride...
THE STORYTELLER
This past month I had the privilege of visiting the new Pueblo Cultural Center and Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the village in Taos. I was most impressed with the pottery and artifacts of ‘the storyteller,’ so I just had to share this with...
OPEN A BOOK OPEN THE WORLD
Library of Congress Book Festival For this year’s Library of Congress Book Festival in September, the theme was “Open a Book, Open the World.” This really resonated with me as that was the maxim of my grandfather’s world as well. As children, he always encouraged us...