Continue Reading Maman After reading that the Red Cross has been denied access to the migrant detention camps and that a Betsy deVos-linked evangelical agency…
Continue Reading Invitation Short and sweet today: I hope those of you from these parts can join us for the artist reception of this show…
Continue Reading White Power Yesterday I pointed to predictions of the possibility of increased US military engagements. Today I want to recommend some reading that spells…
Continue Reading War Games Language matters, I think we all agree. And we are alert that terms like infesting, when applied by our president to people instead…
Continue Reading Echos of the Past? Portents of the Future? I will spare you and myself the audio clip of children, separated at the border from their parents and placed in cages,…
Continue Reading Fortress Europe The newly formed German government is about to break apart over the refugee question. Chancellor Merkel, head of the conservative CDU, is…
Continue Reading The Ties that Bind (Blest be) the Tie that Binds is a hymn written in 1782 by theologian John Fawcett. It was a celebration of ties…
Continue Reading Visibility In the 1950s and 60s you still had to stop at a checkpoint and show your passport when crossing the border into…
Continue Reading Perceptions I lived for a year in Arnhem when I was little, and spent a large part of my later childhood in a…
Continue Reading Artistry Since we started on Dutch memory lane yesterday we might as well pursue that path today. And since memory lane does not…
