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You Don't Have to Choose Between Happiness and Being Informed We are living in an amazingly beautiful world and when you focus on that more than on the bad news of the day, you begin to see that as confused and crazy as our civilization is the world is crazy beautiful! Her beauty…
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…It''s about my journey going from a liberal civil rights lawyer who was tinkering with the machine, and believed that we could somehow get the to the Promised Land if we just filed the next best lawsuit, or met the the governor, or organize the right number of people for the next protest,…
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Many years ago I began a novel by Zora Neale Hurston and couldn't find the rhythm of her words and abandoned the effort. About a month ago I picked up her autobiography, "Dust Tracks on a Road" at our local Library and was blown away. Here is a writer with an understanding of…
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A Favorite Poem For the Anniversary of My Death By W. S. Merwin Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star Then I will…
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One evening. One beach walk in the rain. Three or four or five stories being played out… "Let's Get Away" A couple, no longer young, and not yet old, married only a few years, but finding themselves entrenched in very hectic busy lives together with their eager dog, Fletcher.…
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There was a very short story, written years ago by Susan Sontag with a title similar to the title of this post. Once you have finished that story you discover that the author had never been to China after all! Same thing here, neither have I! The China…
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