Trying to Make Sense of It
Two weeks after the rampage in Tucson, survivors struggle with ‘what if’… So does Suzi Hileman, who days after the shooting awoke in her hospital bed shouting: “Christina! Christina!” That Saturday morning, Ms. Hileman picked up Christina-Taylor Green, her 9-year-old neighbor, and promised the girl’s mother that they would return in three or four hours. [...]
Standing on the Side of Love
Inspiring sermon today from the Reverend James Ismael Ford, posted on his blog, Monkey Mind Online … Out of the horror that took place in Tucson on Saturday the 8th of January, amidst the fear and blood, there were several notable acts of heroism. I think of Dorwan Stoddard the seventy-six year old retired construction [...]
Blessing the Union
Today’s Huffington Post reports that Pope Benedict has laid down some standards for priests counseling engaged couples… VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI told priests Saturday to do a better job counseling would-be spouses to ensure their marriages last and said no one has an absolute right to a wedding. Benedict made the comments in [...]
Shot a Coyote
With a camera, that is. Mary Grady at One New Thing Every Day was following some tracks in the wilds of Pawtuxet and came face to face with the wild dog. She thinks the pix came out fuzzy but I think it came out very good. You can see it here.
Sexing Up Geothermal Energy
Some good green news from Wednesday’s Providence Journal… CHARLESTOWN, R.I. — When The Charlestown Package Store reopens this spring, customers will see that the original hole-in-the-wall business has been replaced by a much larger structure with a two-story, timbered lobby. What will be less obvious is the specially designed geothermal system that will heat, cool [...]
Demolition Politics
Just about three years ago, Kmareka reported on a press conference organized by PRYSM (Providence Youth Student Movement). High school students invited state officials and the press to hear testimony about the work of three Southeast Asian interpreters and their vital role in the community. Governor Carcieri eliminated the interpreter positions as a cost-cutting measure, [...]
DC Marriage Equality Law Stands
An important legal victory for marriage equality– from today’s Washington Post… The Supreme Court has declined to revive a lawsuit intending to allow a voter referendum on the District’s same-sex marriage law. Local courts have said the District’s Board of Elections and Ethics was justified in denying attempts by opponents of same-sex marriage to put [...]
Long Road to Healing
Neurological researcher Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke twelve years ago and became her own experimental subject as she fought her way to recovery. She documents her journey in a book, ‘My Stroke of Insight’. Although the sporadically discontinuous flow of normal cognition was virtually incapacitating, somehow I managed to keep my body on task. [...]
From Despair to Courage
Several years ago, the Green family held a reunion in Montgomery, Alabama. My husband’s parents grew up in the nearby town of Selma, in the heart of the segregated South. They both traveled North in the late 1940′s, separately, to Louisville, Kentucky. They had grown up on adjoining farms, and after finding each other in [...]
Faith vs Guns
Today’s sermon by Rev. James Ford was dedicated to the life of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King. I understand when Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated, after the police and FBI arrived, during all the confusion, people running around, agents trying to get a handle on what had happened, one agent informed his [...]
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