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History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. Jean-Henri Fabre In November of 2014, I officially and legally became an orphan when my adoptive father succumbed to pulmonary fibrosis — something that would not have killed him if...
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Instead of feeling protected by police, many African Americans are intimidated and live in daily fear that their children will face abuse, arrest and death at the hands of police officers who may be acting on implicit biases or institutional policies based on stereotypes and...
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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet. Maya Angelou Hate can’t destroy hate. Robin Pratt, dear old friend Now and then, Facebook unearths a wellspring of hatred so vituperative that I am taken aback, although...
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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall (often, but erroneously, attributed to Voltaire) I have come to hate politics. Literally hate them. Nobody seems to keep a cool...
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You know, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people. Judith Light It hit me like a half-frozen water balloon just out of my line of sight. In all this vile kerfuffle over trans people and using the bathroom, has it occurred to any of...
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Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn’t know possible. Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love Recently, mostly due to miserable happenstance and a stubborn, willfull hubby who refused to listen to his wife who certifiably...
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The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon… it sounds romantic, but it’s true – the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine – a few cars touch on it, but not too many...
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I don’t have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation. Whoopi Goldberg There are a few things in the world that annoy me, a whole lot of things that make me shoot flames (never mind steam, I’m past that) out my ears, but mostly,...
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People sometimes say that we lack remorse or guilt like it’s a bad thing. They are sure that remorse and guilt are necessary to being a ‘good’ person. M.E. Thomas, Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight *Some details have been...
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