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Month: September 2010

Timbuktu

Posted on 28 September, 201028 September, 2010

  • by Laura Watilo Blake
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From Here to Timbuktu

The phrase “from here to Timbuktu,” is commonly used to describe some remote, hard-to-reach mythical place, but never a real destination that one could actually visit. But then, a few years ago, I was on a flight going who knows where, when I started chatting with a woman sitting next to me. “I’m going to…

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Posted on 12 September, 201012 September, 2010

  • by Laura Watilo Blake
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Feeling the Burn

While a wacko pastor in Florida was contemplating the burning of the Koran this week, I was attending a wacky event: the ritual burning of Zozobra in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The burning of the 50-foot-tall marionette signifies an emotional cleansing of gloom; and the sign of better things to come. The event begins with…

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