@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
"Sacred Waters: 19 and Pregnant" (Chapter 3: "Riding the Wind")
The Celtic knot represents the three forces of nature: water, fire and earth. The single line is said to signify the oneness of the...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 22
- 4 min
Portugal's Oldest Person Dies at 112
Isabel Gomes Sarmento on her 111th birthday in 2021 Isabel Gomes Sarmento, the oldest known person in Portugal, died at age 112 in a...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 17
- 1 min
"Sacred Waters: 19 and Pregnant" (Chapter 2: "I Can't Go Back")
CHAPTER 2 Feale’s face shone in a shaft of morning light rushing through open wooden shutters at the front of the two-room stone house....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Pete Seeger on Meeting Dr. Martin Luther King: "We Shall Overcome"
Folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger: "I met her, I met all three of them that day. As a matter of fact, there is a picture taken...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 10
- 1 min
"Sacred Waters: 19 and Pregnant" (Chapter 1: "Run, Run!")
The raven appears in the mythology of the Celts and many others. It often represents prophecy and insight, connecting the material world...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Jan 6
- 1 min
"Full of Sound and Fury"
Life may be absurd, but in Belize and the Caribbean, death merits communal traditions. On the ninth night after a person’s death, food,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
"Being Asian in America": A Short Documentary
"The challenge is not about who they are. It's about explaining to people who they are." ...
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Truman Capote
- Dec 22, 2022
- 18 min
"A Christmas Memory"
Until he was 10, Truman Capote lived with distant and elderly cousins in rural Alabama about whom he writes in A Christmas Memory....
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Paul Auster
- Dec 18, 2022
- 12 min
"Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" in "Smoke"
Harvey Keitel and Clarice Taylor in Wayne Wang’s Smoke (@ 1995 Miramax/N.D.F./Euro Space) I heard this story from Auggie Wren. Since...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 13, 2022
- 7 min
Nepotism Divides Portuguese People from Politicians
In 2020, the then-Minister of Justice Francisca Van Dunem (November 2015-March 2022) approved a National Anti-Corruption Strategy (ENAC),...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Dec 7, 2022
- 4 min
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus
Cynthia Adina Kirkwood visiting Santa Claus at Macy’s Herald Square, New York City, circa 1961 Originally published in The New York Sun ...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 30, 2022
- 4 min
Cornwall's "Poet Laureate": Charles Causley
Closing lines of I Saw a Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley (Illustration by Pat Marriott) Foraging through a used bookshop...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Fado of Coimbra, Portugal: A Sculptural Tribute
The evocative bronze symbolizes Coimbra’s paean to fado through a Portuguese guitar with the contours of a woman’s body. Lines from fado...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Say Its Name: Slavery (Chapter 16, Epilogue of "Pirating Slavery")
The Tower, XVI in the tarot card deck, is a solid structure. However, it has been built on shaky foundations representing false premises....
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 16, 2022
- 12 min
Coimbra Jews: Tolerance to Persecution in Portugal
Two steps lead up to an unpartitioned cell. Behind draped white gauzy material and lit by a footlight, two ropes hang from the ceiling...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 14, 2022
- 2 min
Tricky Living on Land: No Omens (Chapter 15 of "Pirating Slavery")
“Port Royal,” Adrian said, immediately. “What! Not Charles Town,” Edward asked. The Pink House, the oldest stone building in Charleston,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
A Shocked Adrian Changes Course (Chapter 14 of "Pirating Slavery")
Adrian, Trevor and Edward shouldered their way to the front of the mourners. They stood to the right of the bodies individually wrapped...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 7, 2022
- 4 min
Portugal: Elevated Walkways Open in Serra da Estrela
“The interior of Portugal is a treasure of landscapes to discover and rediscover," said Ana Abrunhosa, Minister of Territorial Cohesion,...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
Saved Africans . . . Banished (Chapter 13 of "Pirating Slavery")
The two men were wrapped in a final embrace, their swollen faces barely recognizable and dripping in bright, red blood. Passers-by had...
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@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
Two Unique “Libraries” at Penacova, Portugal
High quartzite beds appear vertically as if they were books on a shelf in what could be the world’s oldest bookstore or library between...
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