The United States is no longer the center of the world, rather we are becoming multi-polar with China and India playing increasingly more important roles.

Small Holes in the Silence: Short Stories

In this book, Patricia Grace wrote a short story called “Eben” about a developmentally disabled man growing up in an orphanage and this woman comes to visit him but they won’t let her adopt him because she’s not married. But she can take him out for the weekend. So one weekend, after she gave notice at her job and her house, she picks him up and they move to a new city. They live together many years until she dies. For a while, he lives in an institution, and then is moved into a group. The whole story is a tribute to those 2 people.

by Margaret Hope Bacon

This is an important pamphlet to read especially for Quakers who think they aren’t racists.

There are 40 million sheep in Aotearoa.  There are sheep everywhere.  This book about a boy coming of age and rebelling against an autocratic and vicious grandfather in a sheep-shearing father was a wonderful read during my time in New Zealand.

by Patricia Grace

Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

This is a magical book.  Toko-i-te-Marama has the gift of knowing and story telling.  May he rule my heart.

Cousins (Talanoa)

This book contrasts the lives of three Maori women.  Poignant!