Comments on My New Dwindling Community

I'm sorry, Charles. I think about Zimbabwe often.

Yes Charles. It is sad to see one person selfishly dragging an entire nation down.

What's the meaning of the caption?

"What a lovely bracelet on that wrist."

I like what the bracelet is wearing.

Aha, evidence that you even bore yourself:
"I did not join the Zimbabwe Jewish Community’s website out of boredom brought on by insomnia"
Alas, you do not bore yourself to sleep like you do so many otherzzz zzz zzzzz

hey Snagglepuss, how bout a long motherfuckin' walk off a short motherfuckin' pier for you?

Talk about adding insult to injury.

I can assure you Charles, you play no part n this history you celebrate. The hopfull days you nostalgically write about were the bastion of a very privilaged few and you would certainly have been excluded for the pictured gathering unless you were the unfortunate houseboy tasked with cleaning up afterwards.

actually, deeply depressed, the year this photo was taken, 1969, i was born to educated parents and in very comfortable circumstances. so there is room in the image for my nostalgia. and even if you were not as fortunate as my parents, then at least you had a job, a pension, and could expect to live far beyond the present life expectancy of 34.

I am surpised to read you say that Charles. I've read a quite a few of your posts and one theme that is popular in your writings is the march of modernity - the rejecion of old archacisms that give way to new universalities. Rhodesia, Charles was exactly the crusty remnant of the glorious past that a modernist like you would reject. The Anglo stratified class structure emboded by what neighborhood you lived in (Borrowdale - uperclass white, Hatfield - middle class black or Mufacose - poor black), what school you attended, what accent you spoke your English with all in an attempt to create a mirror image of mother England. Your (and my) disgust of Mugabe aside, Rhodesia was an epoch that needed to go - if only to make way for a true Zimbabweanism - not the shallow recreation of Anglosaxon society.

deeply depressed, i see, you know harare very well. i actually must be a little clear on my position. what i find in these images, is the potential for progress, the materials for progress. the potential that was once there is now gone. is the future possible today in zimbabwe? no. but it was back then.

Charles - I am editor of the ZJC (www.zjc.org.il) website please contact me.

thanks

Dave