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To Theorize and Dance in Brussels

To Theorize and Dance in Brussels

Aging on the Run, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Racism, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies

  Brussels, like Paris, unfolded as a mash-up of old and new. While Paris was a hard 24 hours, Brussels was an inviting and fun three days. The difference was serendipity, not a true reflection of these two venerable places.  This is the problem with short...
Confessions of a post-Impressionist in France

Confessions of a post-Impressionist in France

Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Racism, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies

                                           “The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”                                                                                                               17th Century French Philosopher,...
Five Questions about the Economy and Politics of Tirana, Albania

Five Questions about the Economy and Politics of Tirana, Albania

Aging on the Run, Public History, Sustainable Economies

“I accepted the story I heard on foreign media: that the [1997] Albanian civil war could be explained not by the collapse of a flawed financial system but by longstanding animosities between ethnic groups… its plan could be disrupted only by outside...
Mr. Blinken came to  Albania

Mr. Blinken came to Albania

Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Sustainable Economies

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken came to Tirana, Albania. He did not stay long. Not long enough for a state dinner. He would eat in Munich, his next stop.  The Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama chastised him for this diplomatic slight. While Blinken was in...
Scruja, North Macedonia. To The Lake: A Journey for Peace, during a time of War.

Scruja, North Macedonia. To The Lake: A Journey for Peace, during a time of War.

Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Sustainable Economies

I read To The Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova, about her roots trip circling two ancient lakes that border Albania, North Macedonia, and Greece. Kassabova rejects the nationalisms that poison the region while celebrating the magnetism of a Lake...
Tirana, Albania, Minneapolis, Minnesota. If we build it, will they come?

Tirana, Albania, Minneapolis, Minnesota. If we build it, will they come?

Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Public History, Sustainable Economies

In Albania, time folds, though the marching chronology of the country’s last 130 years appears stark with fundamental change: The Ottoman Empire, Nationalist Monarchy, Italian Fascism, Enver Hoxha’s Stalinism, Enver Hoxha’s Maoism, Enver’s Hoxha’s Enverism— a...
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