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Jan.20.2010
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, by all accounts, remains relatively invisible today, despite her being of a mind which in today's economic climate would have given the best moneymen a run for their business acumen and money. Intellectually she remains in a league of her own, her legacy, not only...
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Oct.09.2009
I don't believe in hope. I think hope and religious faith are the two most insidious and cold blooded of human conventions:each offer up the unattainable and each incur endless suffering. I grew up in a country whose ideologues exploited religious conviction to validate the most dehumanising form...
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Sep.25.2009
I've already written in a poem about saying goodbye, so I am not sure this momentary pause in thought, matters in respect of the RedRoom weekly theme request. It counts for me, as this past week I lost a part of me. I lost the bedrock of my life in enforced exile. As the theme has been about...
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Sep.24.2009
Between loss and living
Absences wrench, gut, tear, rake. What follows is an infused hollowing out of the senses: A crushing of the heart and a cold deadening of skin. The soul shrinks in its sudden deep freeze.
One
Plain-dressed, Sentimental walks Sorrow
between gravestones...
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Sep.11.2009
FRAGILEThe ideological differential in elementary calculus of dying has always been a predicament of material limitations: what does one do to create a legacy of immortality?
The notion of 'nationhood' is still a material predicament seeded in sentimentality and in that landscape where winning the...
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Jul.30.2009
Among the most mysteriously and mystifyingly attractive notions to the romantically inclined, is the idea of being published. It captivates the heart and mind and makes anyone, with even the vaguest inkling of the magic of storytelling, daydream at some point, of a moment in which they hold their...
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Apr.24.2009
Reading the headlines lately about President Obama releasing information about severe interrogation techniques, among which were the more insidious; such as waterboarding, apprarently approved by Ms Rice while in office and having just signed a petition I received from George Soros foundation, I...
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Feb.21.2009
............." Polo is karma. I believe. Its also about a way of life. People notice the frills but there is much more. It's dedication. It is love. It's care and it's passion. It is about rewarding and it's teaching. Learning all along forever. And it's a great sorter: The shallow ones...
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Feb.19.2009
Mark Twain said
" We are all ignorant only about different things...."
I've always loved the stripped psychological simplicity of this inversion of knowledgeable worth; though this doesn't disguise my rather passionate disposition with things which may seem blatantly nonsensical and...
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Feb.16.2009
It comes down to the paradoxical intimacy of web anonymity, coupled with the voyeuristic gluttony of the human animal. Against a backdrop of increasing emotional isolation in the real world, where no one really knows anymore how to truly communicate feelings, the sense of power this young man had...
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Feb.16.2009
A Place of Disrespect
Mythologies.
We buy into them.
We shape our lives by what we read and think we learn from them... Imperceptibly, the very difference between solitude and loneliness becomes the proscenium of our own daily, privately disingenuous stagecraft and remains the arch within...
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Causes Renee Sigel Supports
The Grossman Burn Unit
The Helen Bamber Foundation
The Literati Foundation
Pax Mondial
Women For A Change