Dear Readers
I fully appreciate that you might be experiencing donor fatigue after donating to such worthy causes as the Superstorm Sandy relief fund, the “I am Malala” education fund, and even the recently concluded U.S. presidential campaigns.
But to the extent you have any discretionary cash left, please consider this appeal – not to your heart but to your mind.
Patricia Duff is a mature student at the University of Cambridge in England specializing in archaeology. She explains her area of research with religious fervor but, for me, she might as well be speaking in tongues.
More to the point, Patricia has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Greece to work on an archaeological site of considerable significance called Eleusis. And her interest in doing so is more than academic:
All over the world, important archaeological sites are just that: ‘sites’; with their significance in the role of human history and their wonderful stories left a mystery. I want to write the story linking it with various areas of the archaeological site, so that you could walk around the area and understand much more about what you are seeing.
I want to bring the architecture of the archaeological site alive with this story.
(Patricia Duff, Unraveling the Eleusinian Mysteries)
But the reason I am appealing to you to help fund her field trip is that, before going off to Cambridge, Patricia spent decades doing all manner of pro bono social work in my home country of the Turks and Caicos Islands: imagine the personification of Mother Teresa and Wangari Maathai.
This is why I actually consider it an honor to beg for your help on her behalf. Accordingly, I urge you to visit her site (by clicking on the link below) and donate as much as you can.
Thank you.
ALH
Related link:
Unraveling the Eleusinian Mysteries