Justice | Justice
Oct.31.2010
Last year it took 24 days to bring Josephine "Stewart" Morgan from the point where her husband was murdered to finally bringing to justice those responsible. This year Josephine is back. Called upon by society to help fight one of the toughest Criminal groups on the planet, Josephine...
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Oct.30.2010
The redwood out in front has produced a soft carpet of gorgeously brilliant, golden needles –and the rains have finally come. Everything in CiCi’s Garden looks invitingly fresh with rain-polished leaves glossy after a downpour.
Rain-polished leaves in CiCi's Garden
The past few weeks a...
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Oct.17.2010
My friend Esther recently returned from a trip to Tanzania, Africa, where she and a friend had the privilege of watching the Great Migration in the Serengeti. It was the trip of a lifetime as they saw an amazing array of people, scenery and animals –including elephants that woke them in the wee...
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Oct.03.2010
It’s come as you are when visiting my blog, CiCi’s Garden –otherwise what would be the point? To be welcome, guests need not sanitize or in any way alter how they express their reality. The Garden is a place where frank conversation is embraced, emotions respected and affirmed while at the same...
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Sep.26.2010
My husband holds many cherished memories from his preteens through his college years and beyond of accompanying his father on the piano while his father played the violin, one he had played as a boy growing up in Karlsbad, the most famous spa town in what was then Czechoslovakia.
Wolfgang soon...
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Sep.14.2010
I just finished Under the Blue Flag and I feel compelled to write about it before I go to my unfulfilling, low-paying job. Quite honestly, I would never pick up a book about Kosovo. No, too depressing, not interested. However, I got this book at the library because I know the author (in a very...
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Sep.04.2010
There still lots children who are sexually abused by the Catholic clergy, in Northern Ireland and other parts of the world. It makes me sick in my stomach that Cardinal Shean Brady is so arrogant at such a level, that he even chooses to cover up the crimes. The question, which is in my mind is does...
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Aug.27.2010
Had no one decided on opening this Islamic Centre in Manhattan, a driver assaulted by a 21-year-old tipsy guy would have been just another crime. Not a hate crime. Is there anything like a love crime? Yes, of course, there are crimes of passion and we suddenly seem to have become a world...
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Aug.09.2010
In my lifetime I have written poetry for a number of reasons. Looking back through a notebook-full of them spanning 50-some years I realize I’ve spontaneously used verse as a release –rhythmic expressions arising from otherwise jumbled circumstances.
The poem below came to me in a tall forest...
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Aug.01.2010
The year I was nine my family traveled to Switzerland, my father’s homeland, where we lived for six months with my aunt Liseli in the lovely hamlet of Brienz.
The garden in back of our family’s 300-year-old chalet opened directly onto the lakeshore promenade with spectacular views of the...
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