Tag: responsibility
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Protected: Of Choice, Honesty and Wisdom …
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Of Life, Revelations, and Our Differences That Bind …
Not a day has passed during the three weeks since posting my last blog that I have not felt guilty for failing to hold to my schedule of blogging. It is a promise I give to myself, and a responsibility I maintain as a published writer. The nagging feeling that has haunted me now abates…
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Of Alice Miller, Amy Chua, and Parenting as a Way of Growth and Transformation…
A beneficiary of the Civil Rights Era, I entered integration in third grade carrying with me the missive delivered to many middle-class African-American children around the country: “Integration [of schools] offers an opportunity to work even harder. You may sit next to white students, but you will need to prove yourself. You will need to…
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Of Motorcyclists, Native American Sayings, and Words that Travel Across Time…
If you want to practice patience, try shooting butterflies. They are nothing, if not elusive. Beautiful and elusive. “If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies.” On the way to school one morning this past week our youngest child noticed as a motorcycle moving past our truck and other cars then still and waiting…
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Passion and Responsibility…
This week was busy week. The children returned to school. Fall semester finals loom ahead for my 11th grader with two paper due in just one class. My eldest, a graduate student, faces no
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Imagination and Life
Who is your imagination and what makes it tick? Every artists owes it to her or himself to contemplate her or his imagination, what energizes it, what it craves, what stifles it.