Bentley School -
I
taught in this private progressive school from 1949 to 1954
My
most
recent
vacation was in Bermuda
Variety
Recording Studio - draft of a possible book
Caricature;
Atlanta portrait; conference speaker;
sculpture with background
of the World
Trade Towers as seen from
my window; 3 photos I took of
the
World Trade Center Attack
Grandfather Leroy
Miles was a
homesteader in Spink County's small town, Conde.
He was a pioneer on
the prairie at a time when Indians
were around and wolves howled at
night.
His
specialty was raising Angus heifers. My mother,
an equestrienne with a palomino horse,
met my father, a scout for
the Chicago
Cubs, when he was playing baseball in her
little town.
People Against Racism in
Aboriginal Homelands
I have
been
encouraging Mike Lambe, who almost singlehandedly
has forced the
country to stop treating the Aborigines as
trespassers.
In July 2005, his
10-month stay at an urban Aboriginal community
ended. His efforts to
obtain housing for the One Mile Dam (Darwin)
group are inspiring, and he would appreciate
messages from freethinkers
to the judge. See photos
of the indigenous people.
Bangladesh
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima
is our
century's Susan B. Anthony. Muslim fundamentalists have placed a
"fatwa" on her head, so she has been forced to obtain
asylum in
Sweden.
This
physician-poet-novelist-journalist is my #1 inspiration, and I help her
edit the
translations from Bengali into English.
In addition to winning the UNESCO Singh
Award, she has been nominated by
Amnesty France for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. In
July 2005, she spoke to an
estimated 15,000 at New York City's Madison Square
Garden. Reading one of
her works about the horrors of war (which originally
netted Muslim wrath when
she wrote Lajja),
now she found she was receiving some boos from Hindus present
at the large assembly. Those who profess
the value of organized religion can
make their own observations.
France
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Royston
Ellis