November 2025 I’ve been wanting to place a couple of last posts here for some months. I say “last” because years have passed since there was anything much for me to report regarding Rui and me, or regarding what was a long, dreary narrative that was petering out, that of parents trying vainly to find … More Rui is 20
After spending a few short days together for the holidays this week, our family received this note today from my Dad, Rui’s grandfather, now 92 years of age. Tuesday, December 31, 2019So good to know all arrived home safely. When we were together, I talked about being aware of one’s blessings. I was indeed keenly … More Keep Your Candles Burning – December 31, 2019
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzE914S8kZg I don’t know for how long this film will be up on Youtube, but it is up now! This was an important film for us; extremely important. Its production overlapped with Rui’s abduction to Japan in a period when I did not fully understand the extent and the political significance of Japan’s arrangement of … More ‘From the Shadows’ Documents Japanese Child Abduction as a Way of Life
On Bastille Day, 2019 There is more than one way to cage a child. It is tempting sometimes to say that the society we live in today can be straightforwardly deduced from the self-development of the logic of its institutions. That the increasingly horrid politics and social exclusions we witness today are prefigured in prior … More Bring ’em all in
For Rui Boy 