Thank you for sharing this wonderful personal anecdote. I love and learn from your writing, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom with its Orwellian title, essays, etc., finding a deep intellectual and spiritual rapport, but it is also very good to see you in your everyday self and routine with your family, having concerns with which most people can identify, and sharing your inner being, a vulnerability that we only share with those whom we trust and know.
Vienna as you describe it sounds idyllic, like what backwards looking conservatives here dream about but hopefully without all the racism and other cultural negatives that the 50s represented. My wife and I love Europe and will visit again soon. We traveled through Austria in the late 90s after having had an exchange student for a year from Marburg, Germany. Bernd was in high school here but very advanced. His classes in Germany were more college level. My wife was a high school English teacher in charge of advanced placement and Gifted Education at the time so Bernd fit right in. She now has her Ph.D. and is in charge of High Ability Learner, AP, and International Baccalaureate programs at a large progressive K-12 district here in the Midwest. The schools in Germany were models of excellence on many levels but at that time at least were not dealing with the massive cultural diversity, legal mandates, and socioeconomic differences that are common in public schools in the states.
Keep up the great work helping us help ourselves to fight for our democracy in the U.S.
A treasure
So wonderful to feel your smile through your words. Thank you
Thank you for sharing this wonderful personal anecdote. I love and learn from your writing, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom with its Orwellian title, essays, etc., finding a deep intellectual and spiritual rapport, but it is also very good to see you in your everyday self and routine with your family, having concerns with which most people can identify, and sharing your inner being, a vulnerability that we only share with those whom we trust and know.
Vienna as you describe it sounds idyllic, like what backwards looking conservatives here dream about but hopefully without all the racism and other cultural negatives that the 50s represented. My wife and I love Europe and will visit again soon. We traveled through Austria in the late 90s after having had an exchange student for a year from Marburg, Germany. Bernd was in high school here but very advanced. His classes in Germany were more college level. My wife was a high school English teacher in charge of advanced placement and Gifted Education at the time so Bernd fit right in. She now has her Ph.D. and is in charge of High Ability Learner, AP, and International Baccalaureate programs at a large progressive K-12 district here in the Midwest. The schools in Germany were models of excellence on many levels but at that time at least were not dealing with the massive cultural diversity, legal mandates, and socioeconomic differences that are common in public schools in the states.
Keep up the great work helping us help ourselves to fight for our democracy in the U.S.
This made me smile (with a bit of a tear in my eye).
So glad to read about people with disabilities out and about. For me, that’s an important market of a caring and accepting culture.
This is so beautiful; thank you for sharing.