Duff Gyr was born in Boulder, Colorado, raised near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has spent all of his adult life in Switzerland and France, with a two-year stint in British Columbia, Canada. He actively explores the beautiful spaces where he has lived and travelled. His journeys have taken him to Africa, Southeast Asia, and the top of Mt. Blanc, as well as many other high points in Europe. He enjoys skiing, and cycling, especially through French and Italian vineyards.
Duff entered retirement after nearly 40 years as an educator and life-long learner, with his last 25 years spent as a school principal. He is passionate about writing and has written articles, short stories, this novella, and is working on a novel. He plans to continue to write about his adventures, imagined, and on foot, bicycle, or skis. Duff is also the proud father of two grown men and has shared many adventures with them and his wife Magali.
In 1968 the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. The Prague Spring, with an opening of minds and actions, was suppressed by an authoritarian regime. In Truth and Debris, a Czech psychologist escapes from suppressed Czechoslovakia and becomes a psychologist in a Canadian school. After years of work in Canada she uses recollections of her work with children, and her own childhood memories, to dig for the few shining truths in the twisted debris of her past. Can we all imagine truths lifted from the debris of the Czech invasion being of value during the current invasion of the Ukraine? Are values, deeply hidden below debris, important for our current, general, concern for a few foundational, shining and shared, truths?
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