Grenoble On my whistle stop tour of almost all of our offices in France and the United Kingdom, of course my first stop had to be in Grenoble. It seemed like I was in store for a heat wave as the temperature was predicted at over freezing for my first time in over a week. …
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Notes on Leaving Eastern Europe for My Father
Grenoble My father and George Washington shared the same birthday, February 22nd. He would have been 97 this year, and now he’s been gone just short of a decade. Whenever I would visit countries unknown previously to either of us, he would always ask me to tell him whatever I thought might interest him from …
Bricks and Sticks are Important, but Different than Social Change
Bratislava We had an interesting set of meetings scheduled at a new enterprise launched during the last year in Bratislava that involved creating cultural and community spaces in an experimental building. After hearing about community centers of various sorts and sizes throughout Slovakia, we were finally going to get to see the urban version …