Content Affirmations

~ I am ready to learn to identify important workers in my field of interest here.

~ I am ready to learn to give information about how the society is organized today.

~ I am ready to learn to identify, name, and locate in time and space the culture of interest here.

~ I am ready to learn to describe the environment they occupy today.

~ I am ready to learn to adequately describe the culture of interest here.

~ I am ready to learn to tell a bit about their diet today.

~ I am ready to learn to write out a bit of the nature of my interest in the culture now.

~ I am ready to learn to mention some of their distinguishing artifacts today.

~ I am ready to learn to briefly tell today what attracted me to the topic.

~ I am ready to learn to consider their interactions and contacts today.

~ I am ready to learn to briefly consider their spiritual, intellectual, and artistic values today.

~ I am ready to learn to briefly treat their  defining traits today.

~ I am ready to tell right here and right now what about the topic held my interest.

~ I am ready to learn to quote important workers in the field today.

~ I am ready to learn to say this year from where and from whom I have obtained my facts and dates.

~ I am ready to learn to accentuate the main facts today.

~ I am willing to devise a useful conclusion today.

~ I am ready to learn this season to give some of the earliest history of the topic.

Keynote speech – Commencement Reunion | Wheaton College

Keynote speech – Commencement Reunion | Wheaton College


Click here for the transcript of a nice speech for the kids.

Colombia is Colombia

 I have had an affection for things Colombian from the very early 1960s. I'm not a Colombian, but have been accused of being a bit of a "Pisa."
I've just had a bit of a look at a new book by, I believe, Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce called Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs.  It is the best example of good extended journalism on the realities in Colombia I have seen in half a century.   


If you are interested in Colombia, America foreign policy, drugs,
South America, the Americas in general, humanity, a darn good story, or would just like the facts, take a look at it.