Month: July 2017
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Home Coming
When I first picked up the book, Denk Ich an Sonneberg, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Referencing the war in the subtitle, “Experiences and Thoughts, Sonneberg until the end of the Second World War,”…
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Translation, completed
I finished the translation. It was a long process, but an interesting one. My approach was to translate one paragraph at a time. This offered immediate gratification, compensating the effort of the work. It also…
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Suzy Lake
I was able to attend a guided tour of Suzy Lake‘s photography being presented at the RIC Gallery hosted by the artist herself. Her work is very much related to women’s issues of control, body…
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Key Ceremony
I recently attended a Key Ceremony hosted by Habitat for Humanity, where the sponsors [symbolically] hand over the key to a new home. Among the motivations for the program, is to enable families to own…
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Translation, continued
I am now 40% the way through the manuscript. The narrative is focused, to this point, around family life and contextualised within some history. There are more tales about Tante Fanny. She was the…
