Questioning our place in the world at the Musical Instrument Museum
The MIM is short for the Music Instrument Museum, and founded by Bob Ulrich. He was inspired to develop a new kind of museum that would focus on the kind …
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How I got to know Frank LLoyd Wright, America’s greatest architect
“Designing in harmony with humanity and the environment” was the philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright who lived from 1867 to 1959. He was considered America’s greatest architect and designer, and …
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How we took a break from our online life and worked in the garden
Because of the coronavirus not many organizations in Phoenix offer the opportunities to volunteer in person. We were lucky to arrange our volunteer experience with St. Vincent de Paul Urban …
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Yes, we can!
Someone once said that brave people are those who have no fear and that courage is a physical thing engraved in people’s hearts. But bravery is not the absence of fear. It …
Read MoreFrom Pakistan to Arizona … Never Gets Boring!
Everything was changed at the airports. Once bustling airports now have masks and distancing signs everywhere. Floors are marked with red circles to stand in. I saw many people at …
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Of the Biting Cold and My Grand Canyon Experience -Samantha Refilwe Pilane
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand in the cold.”- Aristotle Winter break provided me with an opportunity to explore other interesting parts of Arizona …
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Time for visionaries – time to follow your dreams
‘’To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed’’, said Hubert Humphrey decades ago and still today, we have never left that Milky Way …
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The Global Journalist Roundtable Podcast
The purpose of this project was to interview eleven Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University through a podcast series titled “The Global Journalist …
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Me, My Quarantined Self and My Monkey Mind
By the time this blog post is published, I will I have been practicing self-isolation for 40 days. Since the beginning of this international time off from life, I have …
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At the Intersection of Sports and Politics
On March 17, basketball superstars Kevin Durant and four Brooklyn Nets players were confirmed to be infected with COVID-19. This is another big headline after the entire NBA was suspended …
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