From an Historian’s Notebook: How to Be a Person with a Voice
But a name tells you not very much more than distant origins; and the same name, from the same part of the world, can be of very different origins, and the Baghdadi Jews and Syrian Christians bear the same name as Muslims from the area which is now Syria and Iraq; I had a colleague with my surname from Romania, which of course was once a part of the Ottoman Empire, and I have never been anywhere near Syria or Iraq
Poem: It Was an April Morning: Fresh and Clear
The spirit of enjoyment and desire,/And hopes and wishes, from all living things/Went circling, like a multitude of sounds.