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Way back when we started trying to save for the house we're now living in (blest be the memory of my dear aunt), we cut out alot of things we really enjoyed like live theatre and opera and concert festivals and the like. But we hung on to our ROM family membership. So we get regular flyer updates and tempting catalogues of classes we can't afford to take. Well I'm flipping though the latest 'ROM Member News' and what do I see but...

Lecture by Ann Killebrew (Penn State U): "Excavating Egyptians, Israelites and Philistines: Identity and Ethnicity in the Biblical World."
Thur. March 30, 7:30pm

AND

And all-day conference of mini-talks on the Sea Peoples, at Brennan Hall, on the 31st.

All free, free, free!! (Sponsored by the CIMS, the Republic of Cyprus, St. Mike's and assorted UofT depts et al. Thanks, y'all - made my day!)


[happyhappyhappylecturedance!!]

A brilliant literary star is gone. But she lives on in her work. Her books are among the most treasured in my library. I might not have always agreed with what her stories had to say, but her words never failed to move me, or make me think. Damn, now I'm crying.

“Belief
initiates and guides action,
or it does nothing”.


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