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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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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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Was It for This?

April 10, 2022
Tags: dubai, nation, nature, poetry, Romanticism, development, story

Bounded Sand

April 10, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, sand, nature, planetary, nation

Lessons on the Sand

April 09, 2022
Tags: dubai, nature, desert, sand, screens

Introductory Dunes

April 09, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, nature, landscape, authenticity, sand, desert

Tree and Nation

April 09, 2022
Tags: expo, dubai, tree, nature, nation

Falcons in the UAE

April 07, 2022
Tags: dubai, nation, money, symbols, birds

Unthreatening Wings

April 07, 2022
Tags: dubai, expo, architecture, design, social justice, nation, public art

Permanent Movement

April 06, 2022
Tags: expo, dubai, architecture, design

The Patterning Mind

March 10, 2022
Tags: expo, globalization, brain, creativity, russia, Plato, human story, self

The Global Surface

March 10, 2022
Tags: expo, globalization, Saudi Arabia, planetary, music, religion

The Stuff of the Expo

March 09, 2022
Tags: expo, souvenirs, things, books, chicago

Closing Books

March 09, 2022
Tags: expo, books, screens, photography, globalization, souvenirs

Allegories of the Self

March 08, 2022
Tags: museum, painting, self, future, Impressionism, creativity

A Painting We Like Today

March 08, 2022
Tags: museum, modernity, france, painting, street scene, Paris

Assigning Roles

March 08, 2022
Tags: expo, painting, orientalism, middle east, 19th century, clothing, animals
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