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Emma Yardley and Jennifer Bain win travel media awards Emma Yardley, BJ’07, has won silver in the Destination Travel (newspaper) category at the 28th Annual North American Travel Journalists Association Awards for excellence in travel journalism for her article, How to See Iceland by Boat, published by the Globe and Mail, and a bronze in…
The Anatomy of Angels Angels inhabit love songs. But they're sprites not seraphim. The angel that up-ended Jacob had sturdy calves, moist hairy armpits, stout loins to serve the god whom she befriended, and was adept at wrestling. She wore a cobra like a girdle. Yet his bone mending he spent some several tedious weeks…
Dear Members of the King’s community, I am delighted to share that starting April 6, 2020, Tanisi Pooran will join our community as King’s new Equity Officer, working safely from home of course. Tanisi is a facilitator and researcher who has worked in universities and the non-profit sector for almost a decade, most recently as…
We were at the third of several holiday parties over one weekend when I caught my boyfriend--a bold, charismatic, belly-laughing extrovert--sitting alone on a couch looking at his phone. He was wearing his favourite conversation starter: a blue and yellow Hanukkah jumper with the star of David, dreidels, menorahs, little orthodox rabbis dancing, gold coins,…
As we conclude our second week of online teaching and our third full week of response to COVID 19, I write to provide the latest updates and news from King’s. Given the unplanned and rapid nature of our comprehensive transition to online learning, it’s not surprising that students have encountered difficulties. In addition to the…
'Come softly to berth': Quaker Poems I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. - George Fox, Quaker Founder While it is hard to say what summer will look like for any of us in these…
Facing an undetermined amount of time social-distancing and trying to distract herself from the grim atmosphere found on social media, Margot Stafford, BA’95, decided to unplug and start tackling a project she had been meaning to work on for some time. No, it wasn’t cleaning the spare room, trimming the hedges, or mastering a new recipe—it was time traveling. Turns out time traveling isn’t as hard as one may think. All it takes is a family who treasures and shares heirlooms, a great-great-grandfather with a habit of tracking his daily life as a farmer in rural New Brunswick and the desire to share some light-hearted content during these troubling days.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to love it Excerpts drawn from the Reverend Doctor Thorne’s notes towards his final FYP lecture: Imagination, Friendship and FYP Over these past 13 years here I often wondered about the disconnect between me and you. In preparing for this talk,…
Dear readers, This 100th issue of Early Modern Times celebrates today the 100th birthday of the great Japanese actor, Toshiro Mifune. Mifune is most famous for his roles in classic films by Akira Kurosawa, including the masterpiece Seven Samurai (1954)--which happens to be my favourite movie. The film is set in 1568, during the protracted…
