WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN JANUARY 2022 LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

My 2022 New Year resolution is to try and view everything from the bright side. Given the state of my two homelands, this is going to be a challenge. The misnamed United States is anything but the united states. Both political parties are internally split, and externally in aggressive confrontation. The centuries-old and world’s longest […]

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN DECEMBER 2021

RETURN OF MY NEWSLETTER AND ARRIVAL OF A NEW COVID VARIANT Responding to the requests from so many of you, which I truly appreciate, I have decided to resume my monthly Letters from Cape Town. We left Cleveland the evening before Thanksgiving heading to South Africa reporting some of the world’s lowest Covid numbers. Dire […]

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN THE FINAL ONE

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN THE FINAL ONE MAY  2020 Different times merit a different letter. I cannot prognosticate the future, find the present conflicting and confining, and do not intend to become obsessed about the wonderful past. For these reasons this will be my last, my final letter to you all from Cape […]

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN, FEBRUARY 2020 – BACK TO SCHOOL

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN FEBRUARY  2020 BACK TO SCHOOL Several of you responded to my last “free-of-politics” newsletter saying you enjoyed political comment. Let me enter the water gently by quoting the following from Hannah Arendt in her book The Origins of Totalitarianism (Harvest Book – Harcourt Inc.): “The ideal subject of totalitarianism […]

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN, JANUARY 2020

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN JANUARY 2020 PICTURES ARE WORTH 1000 WORDS William Kentridge, South Africa’s most internationally recognized living artist, has concurrent exhibits running at two of Cape Town’s iconic museums. Incidentally he also has designed a stage set for the Metropolitan Opera’s current season in New York. Kentridge has an absolutely prolific […]

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN , DECEMBER 2019

FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE  What a difference six months makes. Half a year ago we left the tranquility of Belvidere and small village life of Knysna, returning to our half year in Cleveland. Now we are in Cape Town, ensconced in a luxurious penthouse in Bantry Bay facing the ocean and the […]

WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM KNYSNA , MAY 2019 2018-2019 SEASON’S END

The days are getting shorter, the leaves are falling, and the breath of winter is being felt at the tip of Africa. We ended our season in Knysna with one more trip to Cape Town, then a few days in the north at a national medical conference in Pretoria, before leaving for a few days […]