Libraries by any other name
Michael Gallagher Oh, those Afrikaaners, with their hybrid Dutch-English and what not. I say potato, they say Biblioteek. Actually, this is where I gave my training presentation in Pretoria. It is the…
Dr. Siro Masinde
This is my travel companion in Africa, the African Regional Coordinator of Aluka, Dr. Siro Masinde. He was Head of the Natural Museums of Kenya before accepting our position and…
Airports and revelations
This is the Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Oliver Tambo was a leader of the anti-apartheid movement, along with Nelson Mandela, as well as a leader of the African National…
Brown eyes haiku
Your deep brown eyestransform me, a dog witha wagging tail
The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
In keeping with this concept of returning to the base (as in my previous post), I give you The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats, who prophesied about this gyre concept.…
Culture antecedents
I believe that every aspect of any culture anywhere in the world can be boiled down to the one factor that progenated all of them: survival, both personal and of…
Question
I poked my head into see the moonlight pourover your bare leg. You rustled slightly andI retreated, walking circlesin the carpet. I know you know myrestlessness, and I know you…