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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Palestinian Design

February 17, 2022
Tags: expo, design, Palestine, architecture, place, nation, jerusalem

Palestine Next Door

February 17, 2022
Tags: expo, Palestine, design, Saudi Arabia, architecture, icon, place, future, jerusalem

Our Pulsating Globe

February 15, 2022
Tags: expo, Saudi Arabia, globalization, environmentalism, planetary, public art

Future Society

February 15, 2022
Tags: expo, Saudi Arabia, city, future, dubai, clothing

One More Landscape

February 14, 2022
Tags: expo, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, landscape, screens, nation, islam

The Landscape Bridge

February 14, 2022
Tags: Saudi Arabia, expo, screens, landscape, tourism, nation

An Ethnic Past

February 14, 2022
Tags: expo, Saudi Arabia, clothing, ethnicity, identity, history, screens

Some History Here

February 13, 2022
Tags: expo, history, Saudi Arabia, architecture, UNESCO, nation

Give the People What They Want

February 13, 2022
Tags: expo, Saudi Arabia, selfie, cell phone, youth, clothing

Preserving the Future

February 13, 2022
Tags: expo, future, Saudi Arabia, modernity, identity, design, nation, energy

No World but the Modern World

February 13, 2022
Tags: expo, nation, design, Saudi Arabia, modernity, architecture

The Kingdom

February 13, 2022
Tags: expo, dubai, flag, Saudi Arabia, nation, ethnicity, identity, islam

Places to Invest

February 11, 2022
Tags: expo, Sierra Leone, nation, globalization, story

No Alternative

February 11, 2022
Tags: expo, nation, cuba, innovation, story, history, silicon valley, globalization

Sermons from Glass Closets

February 11, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, consumerism, environmentalism, clothing, t-shirts, water
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