The poet Walt Whitman famously wrote, “I contain multitudes.” And as we attempt to honor the memory of Hazel Large, this fact becomes our stumbling block. How do you remember someone, when every person is so much more than even the sum of their multitudinous parts…
Read MoreLanguage is not math, science, grammar, or even dancing… although it would be difficult to develop and grow in any of those fields without it, because language encompasses them all. It converses with them, with art—with every aspect of human experience—and this conversation affects what language becomes and (if it’s alive and in use) is perpetually becoming.
This means that when you translate a text from one language to another, you’re not just translating a static form of notation into another static form of notation… you’re translating a culture…
Read MoreWhile “pandemic” may be the obvious choice for 2020’s “Word of the Year,” another great option would be “pivot.” So many people have had to pivot in so many ways.
One of the ways in which WE have pivoted this past year has been with our Begin With Books project in Mali…
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