| Akin To A Spider's Web |
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| Tourism is big business in Africa. That is a largely redundant statement. Tourism is presumably big business in most countries. In Africa there are very many independent artists who make and sell their wares, which range from little beaded wire flow |
| Birthday Wishes - Flowers Conveys It All |
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| Birthdays are the most important day for most of us, during the whole year, a day to celebrate in a different style, a day when we becomes the celebrity in our rights. Peoples use to get there birthdays celebrated in different style and manner. Many |
| An Artist's Life Slogan - "Autonomy with Connection" |
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| A life slogan guides the way through contrasts, particularly for the artist, writer, and performer who work in isolation and seek re-newing ways to connect through community. What does that phrase mean? I seek to be fully myself in the context of co |
| The Fountain of Youth - Pop at Play |
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| At 91, my father Erwin A. Thompson still knows how to play and shares this gift with the children who surround him. An 8-year-old friend who lives down the hill loves to play with my father. Pop still has that spark, that joy in living. He invents n |
| Old-Fashioned Family Funeral Journey to a Country Church |
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| Sometimes the journey and the destination become one. Thus it was on a recent family trip to a family funeral for a cousin with a beautiful woman with a beautiful heart and a beautiful voice. Shed sung at my sisters memorial almost three years ago a |
| Backroad Memories with a Veteran Tourguide |
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| We drove my fathers big white Buick up the River Road and into the backroads beyond in tranquil scenery that calmed our souls. My father, who suffers from long car rides at 91, sat in front and told family stories punctuated by songs. His lungs and |
| Beauty and The Snitch |
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| Always suspicious of being watched for my own protection, I often wonder what everyday life in a police state might be like. Certainly we can gather nuggets of insight on a visit to an airport or courthouse, or enjoy a depressing civics lessons from |
| Ancient Hawaiian Society - Isolated Feudalism |
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| Polynesian Caste system Tribal Polynesian culture and society evolved into rigid castes in ancient Hawaii. Ancient Hawaiians were born into specific social classes and did not have the ability to move into another, except in the case of falling into |
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