San Francisco de Macorís If you will indulge me, let me share with you a long excerpt from Karen (Isak) Dinesen, the beginning of her superb memoir Out of Africa. It is long and descriptive, but instructive, and I will have some things to say about it: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong […]
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Campaigning for Obama in Ohio.
15-Dec-12For a long time I was not sure if I would campaign for Obama this year. I was fairly complacent about the election; Romney was, I thought, a terrible candidate, and the Republicans had no ideas beyond giving further government assistance to an utterly unworthy investor class, which I felt could hardly be a winner […]
In Greenville, Mississippi.
16-Mar-11I camped out in the Delta National Forest last night, and took breakfast in Greenville. A group of eight or nine older white folks was sitting around a big table in the center of a Main-Street diner. One reported that a “black man’s head” had just been found by the police, the second murder in […]
Racism, Wimbledon, Sexuality
13-Jul-15http://nonprofit-success.com/tag/consistent-work/ I read this morning the New York Times’ piece on women’s body image which has stirred up some controversy – how Serena Williams’ physique is excellent for tennis, but certain professional tennis players or their coaches were quoted saying they didn’t want such a body, because it made them seem or feel less feminine and […]