I saw this child during a recent trip to China having fun engaging in stroller-by "shootings" on a crowded city street, and this song popped into my head. Parents buy toy guns for their children, mainly sons, in many countries because violence, even faux violence, is part and parcel of masculine identity in many cultures. … Continue reading “Ain’t Gonna Study War No More”
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Fond Memories of a Syria at Peace
Listening to music broadcast by a radio station in Damascus evoked a flood of memories from a long ago trip to Syria that included the capital, the country's second largest port city, Tartus, and the eventful bus ride that took me there. I was there to set up a summer study abroad program for US students … Continue reading Fond Memories of a Syria at Peace
R.I.P. Michael Cull: A Life Well-Lived
I received a very sad but not totally unexpected message last night from my friend, Chuck Searcy, informing me and many others that Mike had died at 8:50 EST (8:50 p.m. Viet Nam time) of pancreatic cancer, after slipping into a coma almost four hours earlier. Here's what Chuck wrote, which best sums up the … Continue reading R.I.P. Michael Cull: A Life Well-Lived
Happy MLK, Jr. Day!
One of my heroes on a very short list. He was assassinated 50 years ago this April but his spirit of peace, justice, and love lives on! MAA
