18 May is the UNESCO-designated International Day of Museums. Each year, there is an overall theme but presented in many different ways by museums throughout the world. This year, the theme title is “Museums as Cultural Hubs”. The role of museums in society are changing. Museums keep reinventing themselves in their quest for becoming ever … More Museums for Our Entry into the World Society by Rene Wadlow
Toto, we are not in Kansas any more L. Frank Baum (1856 – 1916) whose birth anniversary we mark on 15 May is largely forgotten as a writer while his 1899 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz lives on through the 1939 film with Judy Garland as Dorothy and references in essays to the Tin … More Frank Baum: The Father of the Wizard of Oz by Rene Wadlow
The death of Professor Kenneth Waltz on 12 May 2013 in New York City at the age of 88 marks the start of the passing of the second generation of the realist school in the study of international relations. The first generation was a trio marked by the politics of Europe between the two world … More Kenneth Waltz: The Passing of the Second Generation of the Realists by Rene Wadlow
Rapprochement of Cultures The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed the Decade 2013-2022 as the International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures building on the efforts in the UNESCO General Conference which had called for “the development of a universal global consciousness” based on dialogue and cooperation in a climate of trust and mutual understanding … More Gary Snyder : (1930 – ) A Zen View of Nature by Rene Wadlow
The darkness of egoism which will have to be destroyed is the egoism of the Nation. The ideal of India is against the intense consciousness of the separateness of one’s own people from others, which inevitably leads to ceaseless conflicts. There my prayer is ‘let India stand for the co-operation of all the people of … More Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): The Local and the Universal by Rene Wadlow
It is then, a commonplace that the psychoanalyst must be aware of the historical determinants of what made him what he is before he can hope to perfect that human gift: the ability to understand that which is different from him.” Erik Erikson (1902-1994) Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) whose birth anniversary we note on 6 May, … More Sigmund Freud: A Sense of Mission in Troubled Times by Rene Wadlow
He who would understand the Plains must ascend the Eternal Hills, where a man’s eyes scan Infinity. He who would make use of understanding must descend on the Plains where Past and Future meet, and men have need of him. – Talbut Mundy Om-The Secret of Abbor Valley The current tensions and armed violence on … More Mundy and the Khyber Rifles by Rene Wadlow
The United Nations General Assembly in 2009 through resolution A/RES/63/278, under the leadership of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, designated 22 April as the International Mother Earth Day. The Day recognizes a collective responsibility, set out in the 1992 Rio Declaration, to promote harmony with Nature so as to achieve a just balance among economic, … More Day of Mother Earth by Rene Wadlow
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