Pāhonoa te oro

Pillar two: Where you are. March twenty-eighth, nineteen thirty. Istanbul, Turkey. For sixteen hundred years, the city was Constantinople. It was a name carved in stone. But on this morning, the Turkish Postal Service issued a directive. Effective immediately… all mail addressed to Constantinople would be returned. The city was now Istanbul. No referendum. No public vote. Just a mandate. Think about the implication. A physical place… remained exactly where it was. But the reality of the city… ch