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It is not "real life" – it is what we’ve been educated to believe is "real life"
I don’t often post human-interest type stories like this one below, from CNN, but aside from my wanting to note that had this been an anti-war demonstration gone wrong, in which case I think a lot of people would have ended up in jail (I don’t believe any arrests happened), I wanted to hear some…
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Atlanta "Stand With Cindy" Vigil
The Decatur/Atlanta “Stand with Cindy” vigil, that was at the Medlock Plaza and Suburban Plaza intersection in Decatur, began at 7:30. We didn’t get there until around 8 pm. (I don’t think we’ve been on time for anything since H.o.p. was born.) It was storming earlier and I wondered if it would be rained out,…
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Trains
When I was 19, my husband and I made the mistake of conversing with my mother’s father on the downgrading of the grand old railway system here in America. My mother’s father was the sort of very conservative man, never observed without a white shirt and tie, who had a strong vision of the way…
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Nausea
There are days when within a few minutes of getting up I want to go into the bathroom and regurgitate every thought word and image my eyes and ears have channeled into my system since waking. that have been reduced to a yellow-pink melee of viciously spiced, potted human revolting my stomach. To add to…
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The way of all history
I was, I think, 19 when I first read John Hersey’s, “Hiroshima”. I was working in a bookstore. Preferable would have been a job at the real bookstore in town that I used to haunt on the weekends, a small, cramped shop that smelled of books, its shelves so stuffed with books, books piled on…
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The War of Reds and Greens
The above picture of a frozen lake of water on Mars was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft. The story is here. I tell H.o.p. about it and he goes, “Wow!!!!!!!” and we get rather excited. I’ve just finished showing H.o.p. a few more Photoshop tricks after…
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Mark your calendar to buy this book in October
Or rather marking my calendar to buy this book. You may mark your calendar to do whatever in October. Pam’s House Blend has a post on a new book by Jim Loewen that’s due to be released in October, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America”. A quote that Pam supplies from Publishers…
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Eclectic homeschooling with blogs
Klondike Kate’s Aurora continues her watch on the sun’s antics. Her enthusiasm is catching. “Science is cool” she writes, and if H.o.p. was a little older and interested yet in the sun and sun spots then I’d be reading to him her entries. A sample: There is an intriguing picture in the film strip on…
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A long story about bats and how a garden isn’t necessarily a cheap way to eat
BitchPHD has a bat story. Now Stonebridge has his bat story. So I’ve gotta tell my bat story. Husband was in a new band. Bad band. Let’s not talk about it. A drummer friend had also joined. This was eons ago. As husband and drummer were going to be on the road quite a bit…
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To Something Brighter
To something brighter. The place is a veritable disaster wrought of creative play. My desk is stacked with dozens of drawings all done in the last 24 hours. Modeling clay creatures made this afternoon. Ink stamps and pads lay all over H.o.p.’s computer keyboard. He was painting this afternoon too and his paints are out.…
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Pot pies, Patriot Act, and the myth of TV dinners
See the above pic? It’s from some Raleigh North Carolina exhibit, dated 1952 and it is testament to two things. First, it testifies to the fact that people were already eating TV dinners before they came in foil trays. Second, collapsible TV trays existed before foil-packed TV dinners. Had the picture been taken a year…
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And now we’re dancing here
And now we’re dancing here. “Song for Turtle Island” by Eagle and Hawk opening the 16 July 2005 Native Voices Show. I start it up and H.o.p., drawing, gets this excited, huge grin on his face. “What is that?!” he exults. “I love it! Put it in my favorites!”