Category: Regrets
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So Much Water, So Little Sky
Four years ago and many, many miles away, I wrote a blog post about missing the sky. Living in a crowded Korean city for a year, I missed the sky often and a lot. Missed open spaces. I talked, in that blogpost, about a quote from Dana Snyman’s book On the Back Roads, “Maybe it’s because…
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Timbuktu
A few years ago, the Timbuktu Manuscripts were on display in Grahamstown, South Africa. I wanted to go. For a student of African history, there is little more precious than the opportunity to see these documents – evidence of a forgotten past of civilisation, learning and philosophy in West Africa. I didn’t get there. Things…