History Will Judge Us For Our Silence Update On Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror, I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who...
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And Counting I have removed “Bienvenidos, Mi Casa Es Su Casa” for the season, replacing it with a tin pumpkin, which says welcome; still hanging is the welcome to the garden porcelain sign, which will not come down until the Merry Christmas takes its place on the arbor. Missing, are the campaign placards which...
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The Cost of Destiny “If your faith does not lead to a drastic change in your behavior it will not change your destiny.” ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~ In my forever hope of perfect order, I have been going through hand written observations and annotations in spiral notebooks, on post-its, and...
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Ground Zero Mosque “With all of the above taken into account, the original three-year timetable for getting the mosque open that was first publicized in May seems quite conservative at best. At that point, construction was expected to begin on Sept. 11, 2011 (the 10-year anniversary of the terror attacks on the Twin Towers).” ...
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Mercedes O. Cubria was the first female United States military officer who was born in Cuba. She was born in 1903 in Guantanamo, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States, with her family. In 1943, during World War II she enlisted in the Woman’s Army Corp, WAC’s, and was sent to England to study...
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Sadly Seeing to Believe “Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’” John 20:29 (NIV) It seems like a lifetime away now, but I will never forget having crossed the Adriatic from Brindisi, Italy to arrive in Greece, before...
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¡Salud, amor y pesetas, y tiempo para disfrutarlos! How do we know that we are alive? Living and existing are not the same. At what point are we living and when simply existing – what is the difference? Sitting in the waiting room for the intensive care unit, I met a family which had...
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“Iran is routinely criticized for its human rights record and continues to lead the world in executing juvenile offenders. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, the state has executed 19 people in the last month alone, and amputated the hands of five prisoners.” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/07/iran-wife-and-brotherinlaw-of-human-rights-lawyer-held-hostage-by-authorities.html There have been two significant developments in Sakineh...
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Joan Hayden The heat seems endless this year. I have just come in from watering the plants on my porch, and giving a drink of water to the ducks. Oddly, our ducks prefer to be on land, rather than cooling themselves in the lake. I have recently transplanted my bay leaf tree and a...
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The Reading List “For the aim of this book is pleasure. I have never read a book or thought about a subject except for pleasure. Sometimes it is an athletic sort of joy, like a game of tennis, or hunting on a cold, wet day, but if I didn’t enjoy it, I wouldn’t...
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