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June 1, 2016

You Can Help End Female Genital Mutilation     “The World Health Organization defines Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as “the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.” In some cultures, FGM is believed to preserve the virginity of girls and keep...
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From the Editor

 Magnanimity Yesterday, as I was leaving the library, a little girl, about ten years old, must have taken note that my arms were bulging with books; she and her friend were in front of me, she walked over to the button, to open the doors automatically, and pressed it. I was genuinely touched; as...
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April 1, 2016

Once Blood Has Been Shed Words Can Change Nothing I happened to find myself near a Middle Eastern store, which of late, I infrequently shop in, due to its location; I decided to take advantage of the moment, and see if they might have a tea that I was looking for. Many years ago,...
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Words Worth Thinking About

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April 1, 2016

“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.” ~ John Adams~
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March 1, 2016

I Really Do Get It A little less than a year ago, I was hopeful and looking forward to this year’s election; today I am terrified and so wishing I had been able to inspire other’s to approach this election with, at the very least, a clearer head. Soon the results of Super Tuesday...
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Poet’s Corner

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February 11, 2016

A Lasting Love   I am always quite enthralled when I see those couples, sitting on the beach or walking hand in hand with weathered faces, grayed hair, and perhaps a beat skipped, in their walk, who nevertheless seem enthralled in each other’s company.   I stare intently, while trying to be discrete, when...
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Poet’s Corner

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January 1, 2016

May I wish you a Happy New Year? We may not be able any longer, to wish the total stranger a Merry Christmas; and well be confused about the appropriate greeting which accompanies Hanukkah, or know if Kwanza is still being celebrated, and if so by whom; but whether devout or devoid of any...
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December 1, 2015

Unsolicited Advice Before my family had left, on Thanksgiving Day, we were putting autumn officially to rest.  It had been a long time since Charlotte put up a Christmas tree, thus Kate took her Mother, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, to select our tree, which spent the night, in the garage, waiting for the...
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Holiday’s

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December 1, 2015

Happy Hanukkah! “We light these lights for the miracles and the wonders, for the redemption and the battles that you made for our forefathers, in those days at this season, through your holy priests. During all eight days of Hanukkah these lights are sacred, and we are not permitted to make ordinary use of...
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November 1, 2015

El Fracaso de la Iglesia   ‘But if heaven never was promised to me, Neither God’s promise to live eternally. It’s been worth just having the Lord in my life. Living in a world of darkness, You came along and brought me the light.” ~ Andrae Crouch ~ From: If Heaven Was Never Promised...
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