Category Archives: good causes

a turn of events which can’t be ignored

I’m talking to you. I can’t go into all the details of how I know this, but it was revealed to me today that there are indeed people out there who don’t seem to know anything about current events, don’t … Continue reading

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Take back our country…

…because stuff like this needs to stop and stop now, not because of politics or anything more than: it’s not the right thing to do. There’s no book in which crap like this is right. It’s not what our country … Continue reading

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From the Quote Box – Life on the Edge

When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you’ve detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place. — William Drury, Sr College of the Atlantic Continue reading

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Each person…

Each person is valuable and they need to believe that, themselves. We need to tell and show them that and we need to believe it both about them and ourselves.

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AIDS Awareness Day 2014

The AIDS Quilt/Names Project carries on, remembering those who died from AIDS. The number of panels grows, perhaps not at the same rate it once did, but the whole collection shows no sign of becoming a memory itself. Weighing 54 … Continue reading

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