Owl & Ibis - A Confluence Of Minds

Kudos to Fran Stewart for her August 28, 2021 Owl & Ibis presentation,  An Interactive Intro to Writing Your Memoirs . Fran superbly introduced the Confluence to the various perspectives and methods of writing one's memoirs - memoirs as poetry, letter exchanges, narrative remembrances, choosing specific events to write about, prompts, and much more. For more information on Fran's approach to memoir writing including the classes she offers on the same, please visit her website  here . Great job, Fran! Thank you! Jim }:> & ~:)

  “…the collapse of the Afghan government showed that the U.S. had fundamentally misunderstood the people of Afghanistan and had tried to impose a military system that simply made no sense for a society based in patronage networks and family relationships.“  -  Heather Cox Richardson, August18, 2021 * What is the world going through? Neoliberalism ,  Modernity , Political Science vs. History and  Cultural Anthropology ? or Western Modernity and Progress vs. The Rest? or Modernity Blinders to Premodernity and  Postmodernity  vs. Cultural Human Nature 101? We in the US and most of the rest of the world that is separately following our way regarding faux liberal democracy or  autocracy ,  Enlightenment  ideals hypocrisy or rejection, and  ü ber-nationalist capitalism are leading humankind over the precipice of economic, social, and ecological collapse. Modernity is on its way into the dustbin of history. I thought I would never have such a thought entering and having any chance of stickin