Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Our Baha’i National Convention opened in the North Wales Victorian seaside resort of Llandudno this afternoon at 2 p.m. (By the way, the town’s name is very approximately pronounced “thlandidno” – very approximately, that is.)
Convention from a delegate’s viewpoint
National Convention is one of the most important occasions in the Baha’i administrative year. Delegates elected by [...]
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Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fight for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. [William Morris]
Adam Hochschild quotes Morris in the epilogue to his excellent [...]
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It was great to see an op-ed piece by Bani Dugal, the Baha’i International Community’s Principal Representative to the UN, in last Thursday’s Jerusalem Post.
Entitled “Raising children of light”, Bani’s article shows what a threatening and deadly place the world is for so many of the world’s children:
To a child, the world must seem like [...]
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Two railroads come together at Harpers Ferry, the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, which runs along the Potomac River, and the Winchester and Shenandoah Rail Road. They cross the Potomac on bridges which converge at the mouth of a tunnel in the black cliff on the other side of the river. The sound of American [...]
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Erica and I have returned from our ten-day trip to Virginia and Washington DC.
We spent our first three days in Winchester, VA, a great centre for touring the beautiful Shenandoah Valley.
Courthouse, Winchester, VA
The excellent Museum of the Shenandoah Valley is an essential starting point. The museum is well laid out and shows what life [...]
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Yes, I am thinking of the old Cliff Richard film and song Summer Holiday. No, I’m not going on my summer holiday!
But I won’t blogging for the next 10 days or so. I’ve not given up – just taking a break.
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Will you be tucking into a chocolate Easter egg this weekend? If so, you might want to consider how the chocolate has been produced.
According to this story on the BBC News website, many thousands of children work long hours for no pay and little food on cocoa plantations in West Africa. The International Labour Organisation [...]
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Phillipe does a great job with his regular round-up of Baha’i blogs that have particularly struck him in the last week or so.
I’m amazed at the number of Baha’i blogs that are on the go – around 200-300, according to Phillipe. Of course, that’s a drop in the mighty blog ocean, and not a high [...]
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A gloriously sunny afternoon drew Erica and me out of doors for a walk this afternoon. Today’s a public holiday in the UK, so felt justified in abandoning our respective desks and tasks for the pleasures of the countryside.
We’re fortunate to live in an area that is well provided with footpaths and lanes that are [...]
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News of the intensifying persecution of the Baha’is in Iran just keeps coming.
There have been two very disturbing murders of elderly Iranian Baha’i women in their homes.
Behnam Saltanat Akhzari, an 85-year-old resident of Abbas Abad, a dependency of Abadeh in Shiraz, was killed on 16 February 2007. The following day, Shah Beygom Dehghani, a [...]
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