Category: Opinion
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What were your biggest takeaways from grade school?
Mine: I wanted to be a Pueblo Indian when I grew up. Also wanted to be a Dutch colonist and make bayberry scented candles all day. After second grade it was no longer acceptable to hold hands with your best friend walking to school. Planting trees was a civic duty. You’re a Grand Old Flag…
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Who was your favorite teacher?
“Good teachers help you believe in yourself, rather than cultivate a belief in them. They teach you to connect to the divinity within you.” ― Anita Moorjani, Sensitive Is the New Strong: The Power of Empaths in an Increasingly Harsh World My first-grade teacher, Miss Kluba was a stout lady with a pixie haircut. Her determined brows…
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Memories: Growing up During the Sexual Revolution
A Peeping Tom wandered our neighborhood when I was about nine. Once when I was sleeping over Susan Brennan’s house the doorbell rang late at night as we dosed on the couches with the television buzzing the end of the broadcasting day. Drowsily, we pulled the curtains back, too tired to be afraid, and saw…
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Sirach on Pride
What is too sublime for you, do not seek; do not reach into things that are hidden from you. What is committed to you, pay heed to; what is hidden is not your concern. In matters that are beyond you do not meddle, when you have been shown more than you can understand. SIRACH 3:21-23…
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8 Things I Learned From a Five Day Media Fast
To be honest, I can’t even remember what made me decide to take five days away from screen time. Maybe it was the binge watching of horse rescue videos I did over the holidays or the brain fog I was experiencing that left me with nothing but opinionated political commentary on my mind (none of…
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Advent: A Time for Reflection
“You keep us waiting. You, the God of all time, Want us to wait. For the right time in which to discover Who we are, where we are to go, Who will be with us, and what we must do. So thank you … for the waiting time.” John Bell, quoted in The Westminster Collection…
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Do You Have Lunch With A Crazy Person?
How is your mental health? I don’t usually come up against moral dilemmas when out with my daughters thrift shopping. The shop has changed hands and no longer can I depend fully on the place to outfit me. I suppose it’s not a terrible thing to buy new clothes from real stores, but still. We…
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How Has Reading Fiction Changed Your Life for The Better?
Non-Fiction vs. Fiction Just a simple question for today. For a long time I only read non-fiction to “better” myself and to build up knowledge about specific subjects. I enjoyed novels but saw them as a frivolous thing. Secretly I envied the authors and sometimes even the characters so I avoided them (I was the…
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6 Great Quotes About Censorship
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” Mark Twain “My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number,…
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Are You Self-made?
America has gained this reputation as the land of opportunity. It has done so by trying to destroy any and all hereditary obstacles to advancement. Instead, in America the idea is that individual initiative alone could create social mobility. A self-made man would owe his advancement to things like self discipline, loneliness, sobriety, the avoidance…
Author Adrienne Morris 