What a beautiful and thoughtful history. I remember your mom as I knew her through art, walking, talking and friendship. You are a gift of love to her. Best wishes, Lauren L
My wife had been in the Peace Corps there around 1995-6 and when I got my very first sabbatical (1998) I was originally thinking we'd go to Southern Spain... and then she says, "But I got research money to go back to Latvia" (she was finishing an MA in history and was looking at the Holocaust in the Baltics). And so it was Riga instead. I ended up lecturing on environmental ethics at the university there. We lived a block from the railroad station. Still pretty rough in those days but astonishing. Also, I can still count in Latvian. :^)
What a beautiful and thoughtful history. I remember your mom as I knew her through art, walking, talking and friendship. You are a gift of love to her. Best wishes, Lauren L
thank you!
Wow, the prints are beautiful. And Latvia? I spent a sabbatical year in Riga! One of the most wonderful, and strange, experiences of my life.
oh interesting! how did you end up there?
My wife had been in the Peace Corps there around 1995-6 and when I got my very first sabbatical (1998) I was originally thinking we'd go to Southern Spain... and then she says, "But I got research money to go back to Latvia" (she was finishing an MA in history and was looking at the Holocaust in the Baltics). And so it was Riga instead. I ended up lecturing on environmental ethics at the university there. We lived a block from the railroad station. Still pretty rough in those days but astonishing. Also, I can still count in Latvian. :^)
i will have to talk to you about this at some point!