WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN APRIL 2022
INTO THE BUSH Nothing quite matches observing things through the eyes of children. This month we had the unmitigated pleasure of spending quality time with our two grandsons, Jack 13, and Max 11, in a South African game reserve. Let me say unequivocally, the experience of spending a few days in the African bush observing […]
WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN MARCH 2022
TIME TO HIT THE ROAD With the historic South African Parliament Building a burned-out shell, South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, gave his annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) from a well-bedecked and colorfully lighted Cape Town City Hall. A major advantage of the new seating arrangements was that Members of Parliament did not have […]
WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN FEBRUARY 2022
A GASTRONOMIC CARPE DIEM As the political climate deteriorates in both the USA and SA, and unbelievably that is still possible, I continue my efforts to look on the bright side. Fortunately, the diversity and excellence of places to eat in Cape Town and its surroundings offer one powerful way to stay positive. My letter […]
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 – APRIL 2020 – A COVID-DRIVEN TRIP BACK INTO THE PAST
WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN APRIL 2020 A COVID-DRIVEN TRIP BACK INTO THE PAST Lockdown. Quarantine. Pandemic. N-95 Mask. Hand sanitizer. Social distancing. Virtual Passover Seders. Zoom. Terms like these that we could never have dreamed of in our worst nightmares have become the norm in this new frenzied world. South Africa went into […]
WULF UTIAN’S LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN MARCH 2020 LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 SOME CAPE TOWN OBSERVATIONS
The mother of all Black Swans has turned the world on a dime, and no less in Cape Town. But watching the way the problem has evolved and been managed in first world countries has actually surprised me considering how it is being managed in a tiny country at the tip of Africa. To quote […]
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 […]