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May.12.2013
“Mama always said there's an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going, where they've been. I've worn lots of shoes. I bet if I think about it real hard, I could remember my first pair of shoes. Mama said they'd take me anywhere. She said they was my magic shoes."...
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Jul.29.2012
I follow local and national politics. My interest there isn't a fascination with the political process and idolizing politicians; instead it's more in the vein of not being able to take your eyes off a car wreck or a bar fight.
One of the things being toyed with indirectly within the U.S.'s...
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Jul.29.2012
I follow local and national politics. My interest there isn't a fascination with the political process and idolizing politicians; instead it's more in the vein of not being able to take your eyes off a car wreck or a bar fight.
One of the things being toyed with indirectly within the U...
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Jul.15.2012
image via grumper.org
Okay, I admit I made the preceding posts on family a bit too dramatic. I did it first to try and generate emotion, and then to point the way to art from those perhaps toxic emotions.
As the post title suggests, my family life wasn't the best in the world. We all seem...
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Mar.25.2011
Educator, cultural observer and lecturer Perry Huesmann has authored Covenant as Ethical Commonwealth, published by Italian Paths of Culture Press, on the concept of covenant and the possibilities for trust in society. In this guest post, Perry discusses what went into the writing of the book and...
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Dec.03.2010
“Have you been there?” “How well do you know about the place, the person, the idea…?”
These queries have beset me and, I am certain, several others in the writing and more specifically the journalistic field. It is a valid query if one is reporting from the ground. It goes without saying...
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Sep.22.2010
I recently posted a review of Karl Marlantes' book, Matterhorn, here. My review, based on my reaction to the book, and on my perception of war based on the book. Yesterday I received a comment on my review of the book from one Mike Brown, West Point, Class of 1966, who served in Vietnam on two...
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Nov.24.2009
Most disturbing thing I learned in chatroom so far this week - "killing of innocent people is wrong" - is not a universally held moral truth. Sadly only the americans participating in the chat room found the idea that killing innocent people is wrong to be an absolute moral truth.
In...
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Aug.18.2009
Before yesterday, I did not know who Usain Bolt was. Among the sports I have watched avidly are cricket, to some extent tennis and football and for the big events gymnastics and athletics. The first is for cultural reasons, the other two due to the fact that they had stars, always. And style. I...
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