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Robben Island
I struggle to find the words to describe Robben Island. If it doesn’t sound familiar, Robben Island is in Table Bay, a few miles off Cape Town, South Africa. It has a centuries-long history as a penal colony, and from the mid-1840s to the 1930s it also housed what was known as a leper colony.
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Acts of Kindness
I believe in being kind. I have a little card on the wall of my office that says “always choose kindness”, and I try to live that out every day. Does that mean I’m always kind? No, because I am a flawed human being who makes mistakes, gets frustrated, and can unintentionally be unkind. But
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Rubrics
I am on a year-long health journey in 2025. In the early stages of this journey I’ve found myself being asked to “rate my pain” on a scale of one to ten. Have you ever had to do that? I find the question hard to answer. What, after all, constitutes a 2 on the pain
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Slump (Concrete)
ACC is committed to supporting the workforce needs of our region. To that end, we are partnering with Texas Workforce Solutions, the City of Austin, unions, and local employers to develop the Infrastructure Academy to ensure that our region has the skilled workers needed to meet our mobility and infrastructure goals in the next decade