Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
The beauty and harmony of Navaho rugs
One of the side benefits of recently staying at Jacob Lake Inn near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was meeting the grandson of the founders, John Rich, who used his personal experiences and 40-year career of dealing in hand-woven Navaho rugs to help us understand the concept of hozho. Rich, pictured at left, […]
‘Coming of Age’ with Margaret Mead
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 8, 2009] In 1925-26, armed with a Columbia University Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, 23-year-old Margaret Mead spent about six months on the island of Ta’u, Manu’a, American Samoa, conducting field research on whether nurture or nature was predominant in determining behavior. Her controversial book, Coming of […]
Keith: Author and educator urges servant leadership
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Originally published in the BYU–Hawaii electronic “newsroom” on March 27, 2007] Dr. Kent M. Keith [pictured at left], who in 1968 wrote a series of “paradoxical commandments” as a teenage undergraduate at Harvard that have since spread across the globe and formed the basis for several current best-selling books, […]
Scholarly panel shares perspectives with Korean journalists
[By Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, May 27, 2003] A group of South Korean journalists accompanied by two Latter-day Saint authorities from that country recently met with compatriots on campus and heard a scholarly panel discuss the history and status of the Korean Peninsula. The panel, which met in the McKay […]