Conversation and Community

The word “conversation” has, of late, been diluted and diminished through overuse in a variety of contexts and activities that have less and less relevance to authentic, meaningful engagements capable of prompting genuine transformation (more on that complaint in...

Conversing with the Past, Shaping the Future

I have been ruminating for some years on the notion of homesickness, nostalgia and a sentimentality for the past. More to the point, I have been considering the implications of middle age and a burgeoning sense of mortality, all compounded by being an expat. It was...