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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for July 2026:

Classic:
The best way to make y'self feel better is to get y'hands to workin.. When you put y'hands to something and make it somethin else, that will heal you lower places than you cry from.
— A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress, 1995.

Direct:
Our species has come this far only because our ancestors learned to work. We today can move history forward, but only by imposing comparable discipline upon ourselves.
— First Sociology, 1982, p. 216.

Garden moment for July 2026:

Trying something new: our year-old desert garden, with cacti, ice plants, hens and chicks. The Opuntia cultivar seems to have happily survived last winter's fierce cold here in Niagara.

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