This piece was written by Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) and Robert Hillyer (1895-1961). Hillyer taught at my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Delaware, from 1952 until his death. Coincidentally, Hillyer died at the age of 66 on 24 December 1961. (On a personal note both Pinkham and Hillyer are distant paternal cousins.) I think of … Continue reading Christmas Eve
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Speaks to Us Today & Always
Source: Wikimedia Commons This is one of my favorite quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche), whose writings I discovered in English and the original German when I was a university student. Bonhoeffer was arrested in April 1943 by the … Continue reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Speaks to Us Today & Always
Homelessness in the Wealthiest Country on Earth
Photo by MAA How a society treats its most vulnerable is always the measure of its humanity. Statement by Ambassador Matthew Rycroft of the UK Mission to the UN at the Security Council Open Debate on Children and Armed Conflict I saw many scenes like the above in the major US cities I visited earlier … Continue reading Homelessness in the Wealthiest Country on Earth
Waste Transformation Through Closed-Loop Farming
This is a guest post by Paul Olivier, a US expat who lives in Dalat. His article Beyond the hype, a dirty side of Da Lat was published in December 2022 by VNExpress International. No More Poverty and No More Pollution Introduction Plants and animals do not appear separately within the natural world. Did you … Continue reading Waste Transformation Through Closed-Loop Farming
Hunger in the Land of the Free
I read this LinkedIn post with conflicting feelings and felt compelled to respond, for what it was worth. It's always heartwarming to see people helping other people need. On the other hand, no one in the US should go hungry. It is a crying shame and a national disgrace that so many do. The US … Continue reading Hunger in the Land of the Free
Hieu’s Story
Money may not buy happiness but it can buy security, quality healthcare and access to educational opportunity, among other goodies that also happen to be rights. A lack of it can mean the difference between standing on the outside looking in and entering. You can see and maybe touch but you cannot have. A lack of … Continue reading Hieu’s Story
An International Educator in Vietnam 
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