Two weeks is all it took to break my run (if one can even call it that). I do have an excuse but then, isn’t that always the case? But seriously. A commitment is a commitment, right? So perhaps I should just call this an “occasional round up” of what I’ve been listening to, and let myself off the hook for (possibly) disappointing the two-and-a-half regular readers of this blog. What stood out for me over the past couple of weeks of listening? The 1619 podcast hosted by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones came to an emotional end after an enlightening 6 weeks, and I’ve written about that here . In the final episode, Hannah-Jones takes us back to that shore, where the waves still lap, where those first Africans set foot on a land that would mark and be marked by them forever. It was a neat bookending to a story that really has no neat boundaries, like stories of every migration, forced or otherwise, written into the waters and lands of our planet. Almost every
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