To my countrymen

THAT Saturday, April 22, 2006, we knew the meaning of 17,000 islands. Seventeen thousand islands equals millions upon millions of meters of shoreline. Seventeen thousand islands means hundreds of straits.

But we knew it is not these statistics that makes them special.

For shores are edges. Edges dont only mean borders, lines that close off and shut out. Edges are also thresholds. Edges are also gates before porches.

And at every edg