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Reconnecting

Do rocks have memories? Do they remember an afternoon when seven year old boys clambered barefoot over sun warmed granite slopes covered with dried and brittle lichens that scratched and crumbled under...

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Secret Plots In Our Midst

Okay, Facebook participated in a massive experiment to manipulate the feed content of users to observe the response to emotionally laden posts. This information came fromAn extremely reliable source...

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The Second Crucifixion

Are we a stupid species? Much has been written about climate change denial,  the inability to hear or process data, turning off when you hear numbers,  and the psychological process of denial itself....

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Dear Miss Mackie,It has been a long time since I have last reported to you in class as to the peregrinations     of my second grade summer; an oral classroom report, if I recall correctly. No doubt you...

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Is The Fuse Already Lit?

We ignore the past at our own peril. We must learn from history. Are we approaching this nation’s own Soweto uprising? Our own Sharpeville massacre? Do the work and look these up. It’s all too easy for...

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The Meaning of Life

The 1960's were a turbulent period in our nation's history, especially if you were a student at the time. The events cascaded through the months, and given the already present polarization over our...

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Something Different

A moment of zen, it felt like, though perhaps for many here it will readily identify me as a belaborer of the obvious. I've been told that before, and I'll own it. It's Saturday afternoon, December...

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No Country For Old Men?

This is not a gbcw diary to the dkos community. It might be a gbcw diary to the country i was born and grew up in, though, because I no longer recognize it. I'm not holding on to a Norman Rockwell...

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Trekking To The End Times

Planning my summer vacation, I am, and this year it's going to be something a little different. I had previously reported on last summer's adventures on these pages, involving sailing and single malts...

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Cassandra Has Left The Building

  This past week I had the good fortune to watch an extraordinary documentary film feature entitled Expedition To The End of the World. This film drew together several environmental concerns, and...

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Just Politics

I can't count the number of political discussions I have had with my son that have ended with the agreement that "It's just politics," whether it concerns the lack of substantive difference between the...

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I have just won the most important battle of my life.

I have had to overcome a potentially crippling handicap that had me doubting my own sanity. It has been a religious dark night of the soul with an all too real physiological origin. It has also been a...

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Civility and The Religious Freedom Reform Act

In response to sharing the link toFirst they came for the Gays, by Arrogant Apethe following dialogue took place. One of my progressive friends in another state followed along, liking the dialogue, and...

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I didn't get the memo

   Pardon the shortness of this diary, but at this stage of my thinking I'm still struggling for the right words. I have been thinking about, and somewhat troubled by, the implications of the Shell Oil...

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Mother, forget us when we are gone.

Having read the recent Esquire article by John Richardson about the sadness of scientists, and another quote from primate zoologist Jane Goodall about the completely unfathomable notion of growing our...

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Not enough coffee in the world

Thoughts over the first cup of Joe. We endured eight years of Reagan. Hell, we endured Nixon. We old people are flexible. We're still here after W. Coffee... We can survive President Trump. He'll only...

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More Fun in the Bible Belt

Local CBS affiliate WVLT in Knoxville had a piece on state  Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, who has suggested Christians in the state apply for concealed carry permits in light of the Oregon campus shootings. I...

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Killing Me Softly

I believe in civility. Even at this late fractured time in American politics, I try to follow weemama's advice; ultimately, is what you say kind? But reading some of the hundreds of comments following...

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Thoughts About My Father

One recurrent theme I have touched on in several of my diaries is how we are born into an historical context, into a world whose recent events did shape our young new lives. For reasons having to do...

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A Tale of Two Churches

Attn: Church politics and the potential for recriminations necessitates a delicate disguising of names and places. More than one person's job is at stake, not to mention innocent lives. Drama?...

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