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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for November 2024:

Classic:
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1869.

Direct:
A straight and narrow path through life seldom leads to invention and discovery.
— Preface to Heinz Leymann, The Leymann Translation Project, 2011ff.

Garden moment for November 2024:

How much poorer our world would be, and for sure less colourful, without Japanese maples. Cultivars are myriad. This one's leaves turn a rich burgundy in October. You think they are about to fall. But no, in mid-November they turn scarlet.

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