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Tag Archives: Culture
From the Bookshelf: The Hermits of Big Sur, by Paula Huston
Here in the States (USA), we like to observe milestones: 50, 100, 150, 200 year on. The recorded history of European settlement is a relatively short period compared to the development of cultures in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, … Continue reading
Dept. of Alternative Facts: U-go-S-lavi-A
When I was in middle school Civics class, I recall a classmate discussing the dilemma of Yugoslavia. His parents were from that nation, escape out from under their dictator, Tito’s, iron rule. On the one hand, he said that this … Continue reading
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Dept. of Alternative Facts: ”Don’t take your guns to town, son”
(To my readers, I wrote this the weekend of the verdict, but decided to hold onto it until after the new year, as I thought it’s topic not relevant to the holiday season. And in the meantime, two other trials … Continue reading
From the Bookshelf: My Bondage and My Freedom, by Fredrick Douglas
My first memory of a peer of African-American descent comes from elementary school. Sammy. That is about it. We grew up in tract-home, suburban, white, middle-class, college educated, California. Sammy was athletic. OJ Simpson and Muhammad Ali were sports heroes. … Continue reading
From the Bookshelf: Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. Vance
In my project of reading-books-I-already-have-then-moving-them-along, J. D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was next in the stack. This came to me by way of my mother-in-law, whom I believe read it for her book club. She then passed it on to … Continue reading
Theatre Review: I must be So-Mantic
In January we decided to move closer to joining the 21st century by setting up a Roku for our TV screen. We could now live-stream movies. A year or so ago, The Mrs had set up an Amazon Prime account, … Continue reading
Dept. of Alternative Facts: Gated Communities
gated communities: (n) development building technique which features walls and gates to control entrance to community, provide security for residents and owners, and give a sense of superiority over the rest of society outside the gates; typically lived in by … Continue reading
Brown Signs: Cusco, Peru, Textile Studios
Weaving the past. Weaving the future.
Brown Sign: Lake Titicaca, Taquile Island, Peru
Dance to save an island’s culture
From the Bookshelf: The World is Flat, and Requiem for the American Dream
Recently, my mother gave me a book to read, Noam Chomsky’s Requiem for the American Dream. Some years ago, she had given me Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat, which I have neglected on my shelf as dust gathered. … Continue reading
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