Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John ThornI am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.
John ThornIn response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.
John ThornWhy we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.
John Thorn