Earth Day. Twenty-four hours to celebrate the Earth and all its natural resources. Students plant and proudly bring their prized bean sprouts home–only to be left and forgotten on the window sill. One day for students to learn about gardening is not enough to create a lifetime of love and respect for nutrition or the […]
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Here’s a story about six young people from not so long ago who lived in a town called Freeport and dealt with physical abuse in various ways. Paul Henry was 12 years-old, a dreamy, quick-footed kid from a large family of all sisters and no father. He was walking home one evening in October from
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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. “Funeral Blues” – W.H Auden Once, I heard someone say that if you want to get a firm handle on your true
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I walked into a Korean grocery store in Aptos to buy a beach towel. A leathery skinned man, probably in his 50s, was asking the woman behind the counter something about the sandwiches in the cooler. He wore a tight yellow bathing suit nestled between his spindly legs and bloated stomach, and he had a
Danny Moore is one of twelve members of Colorado’s Independent Congressional Redistricting Committee. The other eleven members – Four Democrats, four Independents, and the three other Republicans – recently voted to remove Moore from his role as Committee Chair after some of his Facebook posts had been revealed by the Colorado Springs Gazette and other
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She asked me, “Poppa, What is love?” And I thought and then said “Love is what you need and want it to be.” She thought some and said, “Love is a tree.” And I thought that she was so right. And I think of how my tree looks compared to hers, how they are both