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Indonesian Consulate Gala 2008
Indonesian Consulate Gala 2008
Zoran Saher
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FA-Congress
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Eva Ritvo, M.D.
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Mentor and Mensch, Peter Yarrow
My Mentor, Mensch Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary has performed four benefit concerts for Orphans International Worldwide and the J. Luce Foundation, from his own home to Webster Hall in NYC to Marietta College, giving Jim the courage to keep going in years when common sense dictated otherwise.
Peter Yarrow (May 26, 2021)
(Not) Remembering My Grandfather, Stanford Leonard Luce, Sr.
New York, N.Y. I don’t remember my father’s father because he died before I was born. Oddly, I heard so many stories about him as a child I feel I have memories, but actually I cannot. He was known to all as “Skipper,” I guess because he loved his yacht. He was Luce-stubborn, and died from an electrical shock that threw him overboard when he was working on the deck of his boat with a power drill and would not come in form the rain. Or, at last, that’s what I remember about him.
His real name was Stanford Leonard Luce, Sr. His father had been an Episcopal priest (yes, Anglo-Catholic ministers can be married and have children). Grandfather was in advertising in Boston, I believe. He built a wonderful stone home on Boston’s South Shore, in Hingham.
What I remember fascinated me the most about the house was the rail road-like tracks that went from the boat shed down into Hingham Harbor. And, as a child, the horseshoe crabs that washed up on the rocky shore.
(Not) Remembering My Grandfather, Stanford Leonard Luce, Sr. (May 25, 2021)
On Libraries: Interview with Jim Luce
What does your library mean to you?
My library is my life. It represents everywhere that I have been, physically, emotionally, and intellectually, and everywhere I hope to go. It represents every continent, every faith, every era – from Ancient Greece to the United Nations, from the Social Gospel to the Koran, from Buddha to Gandhi, Churchill, King, and Romero. It also teaches me how to organize and categorize – is it “Literature, France,” or “France. Literature”?
How many books are in your library?
I used to have 2,000 volumes collected over a lifetime, including my college thesis, books by and about my family, and Time-Life and National Geographic volume sets. Years ago, I gave half to the thrift shop – one of the hardest curating projects of my life. I actually have an excel spreadsheet of each book by title and author with the Library of Congress number. Don’t call me obsessive…
What is your favorite genre?
History, biography, and that Mary Renault-like combination of historical fiction. I majored in East Asian Studies with a focus on contemporary Japanese fiction, but have studied in several languages and have Gabriel García Márquez in Spanish, Pramoedya Ananta Toer in German, Hermann Hesse in German, Kōbō Abe in Japanese, and Miguel de Cervantes in Spanish. Chaim Potok, Shyam Selvadurai, Anita Desai, Khaled Hosseine, Chinua Achebe, Mario Vargas Llosa. Eli Wiesel and Kahlil Gibran.
When did you receive your first book? or What was your childhood favorite book?
My family is from Boston and I grew up with Make Way for Ducklings. I also loved Dr. Seuss, and read to my son Oh, the Places You’ll Go! I went to Kindergarten in Paris and loved This is Paris and anything aboutThierry la Fronde. I also loved Asia as a child and delighted in The Story About Ping. Also, The Story of Ferdinand (Leaf)and Everybody Poops (Gomi)are tremendous.
Do you have an all-time favorite book?
I love Japanese literature. Mishima, Oe, Natsume, Tanazaki, Kawabata. My father translated Jules Verne and his The Might Orinoco is one of my favorite books. Madame Chang Kai-Sheck (Li), Catfish and Mandala (Pham), The Last Empress (Pakula), and Rage for Fame and Price of Fame (Morris) are also brilliant. The best book I have read in 2018 is Bekindr: The Transformative Power of Kindness by the incredible humanitarian psychiatrist Dr. Eva Ritvo.
What’s special about your library?
I head two family charities, Orphans International Worldwide, “Raising Global Leaders,” and the James Jay Dudley Lice Foundation, “Supporting Young Global Leadership.” My library contains the 1,000 volumes I believe best support the creation of Global Citizens, embodying the virtues we look for in our embodies the characteristics of our Clare Boothe Luce Award for International Service: honor, intelligence, benevolence and integrity.
Vow of Poverty
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Forming First Gay Rights Organization on Campus, 1980
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New York, N.Y. I was amused when my niece told me I could not have been involved with creating my college’s Gay Support Group as “they have always been there.” Having been raised in the homophobic Midwest of the 1960s and ’70s, it is not particularly funny. I went out of my way to leave Ohio the moment I graduated, moving to gay-friendly New York City.
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Forming First Gay Rights Organization on Campus (May 24, 2021)
N.Y. Times on Mathew Luce, Asian-American Identity and Transracial Adoption
Reconciling Asian-American Identity Within Transracial Adoptions
New York, N.Y. Mengwen Cao photographed and interviewed New Yorkers who were adopted from Asia and grew up in white families in her piece, “Reconciling Asian-American Identity Within Transracial Adoptions,” published today in The New York Times (link).
Mathew Luce, now 25, in front of masks bought from Indonesia at his Roosevelt
Island apartment. Adopted from Indonesia by two dads, he grew up in New York.
May 2017. Photo: Mengwen Cao.
The Times reports:
After Mengwen Cao moved to New York from China, she started to feel like she was straddling two different worlds. To her friends and family back home, she had become “too American.” In New York, she said, she was “always a foreigner.”
Wanting to grasp what it felt like to grow up around family members who “don’t look like you,” she set out to photograph adoptees who were born in Asia and raised by white American parents for a series called “I Stand Between.”
An analysis by the Institute for Family Studies found that the proportion of adoptees in the United States with Asian backgrounds nearly tripled between 1999 and 2011, while the majority of adoptive parents were “white, older, well-educated and relatively affluent.”
Ms. Cao found that most of the people she met shared that concern over authenticity, that question of what makes a “real” Asian.
“It kind of indicates there’s only one real truth, but talking to them made me realize that there’s no one way to be Asian or American — or just a person,” Ms. Cao said. “It’s so important for us to embrace our differences.”
Mengwen writes:
Other interviewees agreed: Mathew Luce, who was adopted from Indonesia and lives on Roosevelt Island, doesn’t take insults or ignorant comments to heart. “I’m proud that I’m Asian, and I’m proud that sometimes I act white,” he told Ms. Cao. “It’s just me. That’s how I grew up.”
N.Y. Times on Mathew Luce, Asian-American Identity and Transracial Adoption (Feb. 14, 2019)
Video: Love Makes a Family
We do not choose our families. We are issued parents at birth and may find ourselves with siblings whom we may or may not like. Blood makes you related, Love makes you family.
New York, N.Y. In the U.S. we sadly often shunt parents and grandparents into assisted living arrangements, where in most other countries the elderly are cherished. Blood makes you related, Love makes you family. The Bible states, For wherever two or more people are gathered together, there is Love.
The traditional family is an extended family. It usually includes parents, children, grandparents and elderly relatives. Extended families mean greater stability, continuity, love and support for each other.
Anyone, especially those in the gay community, can build their own families. They can be “traditional” with a spouse and adopted, biological, or surrogate children. They can be your best friends. Or, they can be any combination of either.
When asked “What can you do to promote world peace?,” Mother Teresa replied, “Go home and love your family.” World Peace begins with our families.
It is, indeed, Love that makes a family! On YouTube
Video: Love Makes a Family (May 21, 2021)
#Love #Family #Gay #LGBT #Lesbian #Adoption #Surrogate #friends #happy #instagood #life #baby #Grandparents #Elderly #Children #familytime #kids #cute #home #familia #momlife #parenting
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Remembering Henry Luce III
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Jim’s Mentors
The impact of mentors lasts a lifetime. When Jim first came to New York City in 1983, Henry Luce III took him under his wing and introduced him to high society. Although connected by blood back 12 generations, Jim and Hank were more related through The College of Wooster and Jim’s first partner and father’s Yale connections.
Remembering New York City, 1983
View from the Staten Island Ferry of Lower Manhattan int h early 1980s. Photo: Jim Luce.
New York City
Plymouth
Plymouth Rock. Photo: Jim Luce.
Remembering George McGovern, My First Presidential Candidate
George McGovern campaigning in Ohio, 1972. Photo: Rick Luce.
New York, N.Y. I remember…
At—and with—the United Nations
Presenting our children as the “Face of Global Warming” at the 60th Annual DPI/NGO conference at the United Nations, with Harriet Katz, and John Lee.
At, and with, the United Nations (May 20, 2021)