This week’s Global Museum highlights a story about a new museum that has opened in Nagoya, Japan in memory of Shoichi Yokoi, a former soldier in the Japanese army who returned to Japan in 1972 having spent over 26 years in the jungles of Guam without realising World War II had ended. (more…)
Archive for June, 2006
The Preciousness of Peace
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006Cornwall culture
Monday, June 26th, 2006
I’ve just added this image and a story to Cornwall Culture, a campaign to find out what Cornwall means to you, us, them. In the section ‘What does Cornwall mean to you‘ there is a virtual pin-board of images each with stories, keywords and comments made by various people who have joined the campaign. You can also agree or disagree with whether a particular keywords or add your own. Browsing around what some people had to say was compelling. (more…)
Solstice day’s eyes
Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Before dawn on 21 June a group of 11 people made their way to a meadow in Wiltshire. The journey was made to found and witness the Circle in the West, a new stone momument that will comprise seven ‘circles’ in homage to Stonehenge. The dawn was clearing as Sun was about to break the flat horizon and we were all quieted by the spectacle in front of us while archaeological surveyors plotted the various angles and positions of the sunrise in relation to the centre point of the Circle. The Ox-eye daisies (the day’s eyes) unfurled and stretched in recognition of it. (more…)
On Boundaries
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006On Boundaries is a new blog created by my friends gesta and reivers, a medievalist and a mathematical scientist, approaching life, people and the universe from their divers perspectives. If they don’t mind me saying, this will blog will challenge all sorts of rubbish that is believed by lots of unthinking or otherwise ignorant people. They are compassionate intellectuals, highly defined by their own life experiences in learning, knowledge acquisition and wisdom sharing.
Believe
Friday, June 9th, 2006I don’t like Mars chocolate bars. That they have been temporarily re-named ‘Believe’ makes confirms my dislike of them. They will surely confuse future archaeologists. Considering the widespead disease of lack of staying-power among much of the population, will people still believe if England are routed in the early stages of the World Cup? Let the madness commence.
Ignoring history
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
History repeats itself. Governments / politicians / we never learn from history. We ignore history at our peril. Some of the things commonly said about the consequences of not engaging with history when decisions like going to war are made. Countless people pointed this out in relation to the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and continue to do so. However, the planning and justifications for this particular invasion have never been countenanced by history. How could they? Who, in the Bush and Blair regimes have ever engaged with history truthfully, recent or distant, to make it influence their decision making? The only use of historical legitimacy that I noted was in that feeble declaration of support penned by Tony Blair and some of his European counterparts to make a statement of solidarity for George Bush and the US government: (more…)