2010 Diary Week 8 Gardening This has been the week of the worms. Some years ago, I attended a worm conference organized by Mary Aplehof, the Queen of Worms, bought a couple of pounds of worms and started a worm project at the American Farm School. In America worms are big business as fish bait …
FROM AGE-ING TO SAGE-ING A PROFOUND NEW VISION OF GROWING OLDER ZALMAN SCHACHTER-SHALOMI AND RONALD S. MILLER WARNER BOOKS 1995 Introduction I was approaching my 60th birthday, and a feeling of futility had invaded my soul, plunging me into a state of depression that no amount of busyness could dispel. While my public life was …
Diary This has been a good week for Christine. She was invited to a one woman show in the Kentro Istorias in the center of Thessaloniki which will open Friday March 5. The exhibit is called Byzantine Ceramics: A Modern Approach. She was also invited to exhibit pieces of her work in the Vlassis Art …
Introduction to David’s Book Reviews Our biggest problem today is information overload. Someone somewhere has the answer to everything we need to know, but finding it can be a time consuming process. There are a number of topics that I have researched and have kept notes in the form of book reviews which I am …
A year ago Christine’s father, Bruce Lansdale, died in our house. He was the best boss I had in my working life and my greatest teacher. He is my role model for a life well lived. During his 35 years, from 1955 to 1990, as director of the American Farm School he touched countless …
Many thanks to my dear friends Aris Bazmadelis and Kay Bash, both librarians, who came over to help make the koliva for Bruce’s memorial. First of all, I had to boil 3 packages of wheat, 1 1/2 kilos for about 1 hour, or until very soft. Aris told me to keep the water from the …
Making Koliva and Assoure for Bruce Lansdale Memorial Luncheon Read More »
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Introduction by Simon Sebag Montefiore Many of these speeches contain eternal truths, particularly a classic such as the Gettysburg Address, or less well known orations by those such as Vaclav Havel, dissident and future Czech President, or Chaim Herzog, Israeli President. For me, the best speech is one that marks no great event but merely …
Introduction Years ago, I never would have written this. That’s because years ago I would have been dead. Struck by what was then called intestinal tuberculosis, my Great-aunt, Catherine Kiss, suffered all the manifestations of the disease I now have and one that is known to travel genetic lines, Crohn’s disease. At the age of …
The Five Gifts of Illness: A Reconsideration (Jill Sklay Marlowe & Company 2007) Read More »
Speeches that Changed the World is a collection of inspiring speeches that had a major impact. Elie Wiesel’s speech ‘The perils of indifference’ made a big impact on me. “On the threshold of a new millennium, what will the legacy of the vanishing century be? Surely it will be judged severely. Two world wars, countless …
