http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/I've had a range of collections and I have been thinking that rather than aimlessly have collections, maybe I can make a collection thematically, and contextualise the collectionhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/582655A friend of mind is just looking at the spectrum of responses to the terror attacks in Mumbai. They are so wide-ranging. Even the questions being raised about the attacks are so wide-ranging. There is even one web-site which is eliciting and compiling the questions. A collection of another sort...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/580186Forwarding this appeal for action as I endorse it Dear All, The Museum of Tolerance (MoT) is a project organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to build a world class center in Jerusalem to teach the value of well, tolerance. A controversy has been brewing for sometime around its location, which...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/5761411. Yellow journalism 2. Oh, tie an yellow ribbon round the old oak tree, it's been three long years... 3. yellow, dirty fellow 4. yellowing of the leaves in autumn 5. yellow that we coloured the sun that we drew 6. Yellow River - the mother river in China 7.....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/572649GETTING RECOGNIZED Wade Black and Robert Thrower Co-Producers Summary: "Getting recognized" is a complex process for Native American individuals and for tribal governing bodies, poorly understood by the non-Native community, and a continuing source of tension between Native Americans and the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/566723SPARROW today has a rich and varied holding - oral history recordings, films and documentaries, music records, photographs, advertisements, books, journals, newspaper articles and cartoons, posters, brochures, personal diaries, letters and other memorabilia that runs into thousands, and is...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/562062collections. And that stimulated me to think that there is also something - what figure of speech is that where you can reverse the words like the above - where the noun becomes the verb and vice-versa.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/557650Victor Hugo Gomes from Goa is collecting agricultural implements from Goa's past, part of his plan to launch a museum as an ode to Goa's agriculture. Worthwhile given that this rich agriculture is hidden or sometimes crushed under the tourism carpet. Anyone know of another museum like this...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/555054challenge to me to fit within the frame-work of my blog. What's interesting? Needs to eb contextualised, So collections are not without their prejudices or affirmations. IS an interesting marriage custom about a marriage cutom that's different from what is usual to us? Is interesting about being...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/549340I know a friend who is making a collection of marriage customs the world over and I found that interesting, but I also felt we can unwittingly get into the dangerous mode of comparing customs unrealistically without having the background in which they are based. And we'll end up sitting in...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Straightforward3034/546355Editormum's blog seeds today inspired me to think beyond the usual collections or even beyond the extraordinary collections I have known One seed was Paraclete and I realised that was an expression in the Bible meaning the Holy Spirit. And I thought of a book I had bought called all the Women in...