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9/11

September 11, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

As this day of limited national mourning comes to an end, I am reminded of something I bring out sometimes. Not every year on September 11, but often, because I need to find some sort of strength in what we – as a nation – experienced nineteen years ago. And this year I choose to …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: 2001 (September 11), Faulkner (William), Nobel Prize for Literature (1950), Virginia (University of)

The Power of Breath

September 4, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

[A comment from Guy: I can think of no more appropriate way to observe the beginning and the end of this summer than to offer this post from my new friend Donita Volkwijn. She is with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, where she is the Manager, Knowledge Management. She and I met recently when I attended a …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Personal History Tagged With: "I can't breathe.", changetheworld, Conversational Leadership, equity, Floyd (George), hope, Hovell (John), Labor Day (USA), leadership, Memorial Day (USA), Volkwijn (Donita)

Finding American Democracy through Humanism and Radical Liberalism

August 17, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

A shorter version of what’s written below was published on Friday, August 14 in The New York Times, as a comment to This is Where I Stand, the opinion column from David Brooks: Thanks to President Barack Obama and two recent columns in The New York Times, I’m wondering if we aren’t finding (at last) a framework for how we …

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Filed Under: Current Events Tagged With: Brooks (David), Cohen (Roger), Harris (Kamala), Obama (Barack)

Celebrating the Elephants

August 16, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Much of what we hear about the elephants is not good news. The dwindling numbers (in just about all species), the poaching, the agreements – sometimes observed and sometimes not – about hunting. Then there was the report in early July of the mysterious (and not poaching-related) deaths of some 356 elephants in Botswana. Let’s …

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Filed Under: Nature, Personal History Tagged With: elephants (African), Kenya, Tsavo East National Park (Kenya), Voi Safari Lodge (Kenya), World Elephant Day

Vienna’s Otto-Wagner-Spital: A Disturbing Story

July 21, 2020 By Guy St. Clair Leave a Comment

Before I conclude my own personal homage to Vienna’s most famous architect (coming in a few weeks when I write about Otto Wagner’s stunning Österreichische Postsparkasse) I want to look again at the Otto-Wagner-Spital which we visited a few days back. In the previous post, I made reference to the fact that the Otto Wagner Hospital in …

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Filed Under: History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Central European University, Kindereuthanasie in Wien 1940-1945, Otto-Wagner-Spital, Steiner (Leopold), Vienna, Vienna - Am Spiegelgrund, Vienna - Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna - Klinik Penzik, Vienna - Memorial Steinhof, Vienna - Memorial to the History of Nazi-Medicine in Vienna, Vienna - Psychiatrisches Krankenhaus, Vienna - Zentralfriedhof, von Boog (Carlo), Wagner (Otto), Zednicek (Walter)

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