Damn! I spent, like, an hour researching a rebuttal to a couple obnoxious posters on the pumapac.org blog today, and when I went back a few hours later, it had apparently not passed muster with the mods and had been sent off into the ether. I shoulda saved it, but I thought, nah, I don’t […]
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Ella’s Song Composed by Bernice Johnson Reagon, copyright ©Songtalk Publishing Co. http://www.bernicejohnsonreagon.com/ella.shtml We who believe in freedom cannot rest We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons Is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers’ sons That which touches me most
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This doesn’t happen to me very often, but the situations over which my heart was breaking a few days ago have worked themselves out in ways I couldn’t have orchestrated if I’d tried. One has lessened in intensity and thus in the severity of the pain it causes, and one has involved healing and reconciliation
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Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech worthy of a JFK or an MLK last night at the Democratic Convention. I can’t remember ever having heard a better political speech, certainly not in real time. News commentators are speculating about what Bill will say tonight. They think the Dem power-brokers are nervous. Gee. Maybe they should
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I originally wrote this in February and posted it to my Tribe blog: Something that is significant to me that I think Hillary gets short shrift for is her personal integrity and the character that was formed in her in the fires of Interngate and the impeachment process. I’ve seen it reported by people who
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I don’t think a better speech could be given than the one Hillary gave in Denver tonight. Sandi agrees with me. There’s still no fuckin’ way I’m voting for 0bama, even though she asked me to, but I thought she finessed everything that could possibly have needed finessing For everybody else it may be between
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After just having posted some fairly unflattering comments about my relationship with my mother, I will now execute an about-face and pay tribute to her and my dad on this their 58th wedding anniversary. I’ve been pretty pissed at both of them for more than a year now, but of course being pissed has nothing
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I’m pretty consistent across venues with the persona I present: it’s part of my lifelong obsession with congruence. There are, however, differences in the intensity with which I flash different facets of myself in different settings. For example, I’ve been very outspoken about my allegiance to the Hillary-for President-in-2008 campaign in my Tribe blog, but
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We are all, every one of us, filled with horror. —Michael Ventura, “A Dance for Your Life in the Marriage Zone” I keep trying to talk myself out of my own grief, but I find that I feel most at peace when I just admit to myself that my heart is breaking. My heart is
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This newest incarnation of my blog is being initiated as the Sun prepares to exit Leo and enter Virgo, which astrology.com tells me is at once down to Earth and idealistic. And indeed, establishing this blog is my attempt to ground my sense of who I am and where I belong in the Blogosphere, with
