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Language, Culture, and Land: Lenses of Lilies
At a pond's edge, a woman muses about waterlilies as metaphors for mother-tongue languages and their power to anchor story,… Read more…
Language, Landscape and Custom: A Synthesis for Memory
by Marilee K. Gloe .. One February day I made my way through Jordan’s al-Siq at Petra. Jutting skyward, the granite walls were shades of orange, peach, brown, and beige, whipped into curvatures and sharp edges by the passage of wind and water over time. The magnitude of the walls dwarfed all human presence. The winter