Aging on the Run, Racism, Radical Hospitality, United Kingdom
You robbed us of our country and gave it to sheep. Let the sheep defend you. Quote of a Crofter recorded by Donald Ross in The Massacre of the Rosses: An Eyewitness Account of the 1854 Clearance at Greenyard The leaders of the nation made money hand o’er fist by...
Aging on the Run, Europe, long term travel, Nationalism, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies
“Where you hear singing, stop. Wicked men have no songs.” On June 14, we took a train from Locarno to Lugano, Switzerland. The station in Lugano is high above the city center. Our steep descent took us into the old town filled with upscale shops. At the bottom of the...
Aging on the Run, Latin America, Nationalism, Public History, Racism, Social Movements
From the Río Bravo to the Straits of Magellan, the Great Cemi, riding high astride a condor, has scattered the seeds of the new América across the romantic nations of the continent and the suffering islands of the sea! José Martí, Nuestra América The Straits of...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, Racism, Social Movements
I have a different idea of a universal. It is a universal rich with all that is particular. Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism While it’s obviously true that aristocratic privilege and whiteness are among the basic assumptions of British ruling class...
Aging on the Run, Blog, Public History, Racism, Sustainable Economies
Whenever the pine recalls the olden days, a few tears still push their way through the pine’s bark in the shape of the drops of resin Latvian folktale ….The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. Karl...
Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Public History, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Social Movements
Multicultural Sarajevo A melodic chant drowned the raucous sounds of Old Town in Sarajevo. We sat in black wooden chairs facing the chancel in the Serbian Orthodox Museum. A couple crossed themselves in front of holy images. Two women—young, English-speaking,...
