Category: America
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Not So Thin: Georgia O’Keefe’s Black Crosses
“I saw the crosses so often—and often in unexpected places—like a thin dark veil of the Catholic Church spread over the New Mexico landscape,” said Georgia O’Keeffe. I didn’t fully grasp O’Keeffe’s meaning at first. I was not in New Mexico. I was at home in Texas, seated at my desk with a roof over…
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Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement
Currently reading: Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement by Sue Ellen Browder. Because there’s always a hidden side of any revolution in thought, or otherwise… From the front: The chains that bind [a woman] in her trap are chains in her own mind and spirit. They are chains made up…
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Bretta de Belfort
The lady in the photo below led a remarkable life which spanned nearly 80 years. No small accomplishment for a woman born in 1848, let alone for someone who emigrated from two countries, settling in America, with nothing but her family and a lot of hope. Born in Belfort, France, Bretta’s family made their way…
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The Backside of “Truth”
How many needed truths has the world lost to the delete button? We will never know. But perhaps this author should have used the delete button a few more times. Less is always more. And if you can get it done with nine lines of code, no need to write ten. But let me not…
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Martin Luther King, Jr. On Voting Your Conscience
Most people will not change until they stand to lose something. This is not the Christian ethic. The Christian, just like Jesus, is willing to lose that others might gain. Martin Luther King, Jr. was willing to lose that others might gain. Like his namesake, the Protestant reformer, Martin Luther, King took on a powerful system…