1. History is not there for you to like or dislike.
2. History is there for you to learn from it.
3. History offends you? Even better. Then you are less likely to repeat it.

Read this out loud, then read it again. Then teach it to your children and grandchildren.

I am reading a stranger’s account of my home town, Melbourne, and seeing what I am blinded to by familiarity. Therein lies the value of neophytes. They have eyes we don’t have. It is absolutely possible to learn about your own culture through the eyes of an outsider.

#anthropology

The destruction of a building can be purposeful (of a society’s own choosing), retaliatory (such as an act of war) or accidental (think electrical fault). Has news of a building’s destruction ever broken your heart?

#architecture #materialculture #anthropology

I’m slowly losing my mom to COPD and it’s awful. Grieving a person in micro increments as they just slowly succumb to a horrible disease is just a brutal experience.

Sending love to everyone else who can relate. My soul is weary.