LAURA LING AND EUNA LEE ARRIVED BACK HOME TO LOS ANGELES TODAY.

THE HOMECOMING
By Ben Christensen

How linguistically lovely the four names sing:
Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
A hearfelt homecoming to family and friends,
brightly smiling all around
tears of joy and hugs abound.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee today stand strong,
their strength bouyed up by loyal family
faithful friends and a throng

of well-wishing Americans.

Yet, then imprisoned, who can fathom
their horror, standing in judgment's grip,
a pain inflicted their lives to rip?

Or, who doubts glad tidings all around,
with vibrant radiance their voices sound?

Laura Ling and Euna Lee,
treasured daughters, lovely wives,
so full of glee.
Euna Lee and Laura Ling
feeling today their freedom ring.

Thanks Bill, thanks Al, thanks America
for bringing happiness home on freedom's wing.
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The current main exhibit at the Mengi Museum in Balboa Park is built around the special folk art done by the people of Puhputra, a village in central India. The movement was begun by Sonabai, a woman who decorated the mud walls of her house with a variety of floral and decorative designs sculpted in clay and painted with mineral pigments. To visit the museum this month is to visit India. If you live in San Diego, I urge you to go take a look.




WHEN YOU GO TO SEE THE SONABAI EXHIBIT, YOU CAN ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE FINE ASIAN ART IN THE MUSEUM'S PERMANENT COLLECTION.