Twenty-one years ago, Maaianne Knuth founded the learning village ‹Kufunda› in Simbabwe, on her mother’s farmland. Her impulse was to reconnect the people with their roots, which were split by colonialism. One of our Editors, Gilda Bartel was there in October. The first fruit from this visit: a conversation about...
We like to think of motherliness as a phenomenon of mothers. Looking at the image of a mother who has fled, I realize that it is a bigger force, active in a world that is in crisis. A comment. The photograph is several years old, but when I saw the...
‹I’m doing my best› wrote a friend as he sat unnerved at home with his children for the tenth day in quarantine, without any of them being sick. I asked him: «Your best, why, what for?» This superlative is a construct of the modern man. It feels much more natural...
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