to grow up in a place and stay in that place? A couple of nights ago I dreamt about my country house. It was a bungalow, with an open kitchen and a large living room below, and then a long deck that my mother turned into two rooms by putting a large dresser in the middle. My parents bought it when I was 7, and I last played there when I was 12. But those five years of going there practically every weekend were probably the most important in my life. Isn’t our childhood, after all, the most important period?
I miss that house, but I miss it because I miss being a child again, being there and then. I wonder how I’d feel if instead of leaving and cutting my childhood, I’d just stayed. Would the places have any less magic for me? Would I search for images of those five years in my memory? Would I long to play cops & robbers, or have a chorizo sandwich, or play with our brand new walkie talkies (was I ten when we got them?).
And will my kids childhood be so meaningful to them?
Author: marga (Page 106 of 158)
(from human rights first)
Remember when only villains on TV tortured?
Today, American heroes on TV dramas like “24” and “Lost”
routinely use torture to save the day.
These shows are intended as entertainment. But their impact is
anything but fictional: Junior soldiers have imitated the
interrogation techniques they have seen on television – on the
notion that they work.
New York, Feb 8 2007 11:00AM
The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voiced his “deep concern” today over construction work initiated by Israel in the Old City of Jerusalem and called for the suspension of any action that could exacerbate tensions.
By Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
Nepal has a community of men identifying themselves as women
The authorities in Nepal have granted a man who dresses and behaves as a woman both male and female citizenship.
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