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Take a Penny…

This time of year, we tend to think of kindness and gratitude. It is an apropos time to remember those who are trailblazers for kindness and those kindhearted torch bearers around us that may go unnoticed. Like a neighbor who stopped by to check-in on you when you were not feeling well. Or, the driver who let you in in traffic and smiled as they did. The person who found something that you lost and returned it to you. The friend who sent you a birthday card that made you cry (in a good way). Another friend who sent you a card for no reason that made you cry – again! There are those little acts of kindness that can…

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December 18, 2022

Social Justice

And the Beat Goes On

The bowels of the Conservative Right are rumbling. In Florida alone, School and Hospital Boards are being taken over by those wanting their freedom yet denying it to others. The books to be read in schools and libraries and medical care to be provided are all at stake. A Hospital CEO is fired because he imposed a mask mandate during COVID. The mother and family of a transgender child must move out of Texas to Maryland to seek her child’s medical care. Teachers and Nurses who are “woke” or awake to racial injustice are leaving the deep Red States. States are being defined as red and blue while purple fades away. The revolution has begun and there are many on…

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December 18, 2022

Peace

Gadding Around

St. Elizabeths Hospital opened in 1855 under the name of Government Hospital for the Insane. It was the first federally operated psychiatric hospital in the US. Although known for its controversial treatment of patients during the 1940’s and 50’s, there were those Nurses who worked there tirelessly. With little treatment options or notorious ones, many Nurses endured the trauma experienced by their psychiatric patients and displayed endless compassion for them. Those Nurses were grateful to be a part of the healing process. It is healthy to take time to admire someone else. Someone that has achieved by their hard work and many accomplishments. It is important to recognize someone that has taken part in something greater than themselves to achieve…

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November 30, 2022

Social Justice

Moving On

It may be interesting to see going forward how Trump and DeSantis work out their political affair. Will they marry and have to determine who will be on top? Or will they knock each other off the “king of the hill” position? Or will one eliminate the other and as a result the other splits off and forms a new Party? The next two years should be quite a show, a nail bitter, an edge of your seat thriller. We ask, will Joe Biden run again? We may have that answer in January ‘23. How would you advise him if you were Jill? We are sure that the betting community is on fire with this one. But for now, there…

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November 30, 2022

Peace

Bracing For Impact

Similar to when the pilot tells its passengers to “brace for impact,” we held on waiting for a flood of some sort on November 8th. Pundits’ cries of a red tide or a blue bath – who would have known the real outcome? Yes, Florida got painted blood red but the rest of the country fared well in blue. The results in the “M” states of Maine, Maryland, and Michigan were outstanding! The right to choose took a stand and won even in the South. The people used their voices and voted their intentions. And, they won on many issues and in many places. Does this indicate that the country is moving on? Moving on from the rhetoric of hate?…

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November 13, 2022

Social Justice

November Daze

Maggie’s birthday is on November 8th but there is something bigger than her day this year. She recalls, when she was a young girl, her father and grandfather sitting in their den after a rare Tuesday dinner since most family dinners were on Sunday. It was November 8, 1960 and both were glued to the TV. The commentator went on as the two of them sat almost speechless on the edge of their chairs waiting for something big. See, Maggie grew up Catholic and the first Catholic Democrat was running for President. And, being a young narcissist, Maggie couldn’t believe that the outcome was to be determined on her birthday. At the time, Maggie could not imagine anything greater than…

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October 30, 2022

Social Justice

Tough as Nails

From home grown election deniers to politicians on the election trail, we now see how some cornered want-to-be candidates act. For instance, Michigan’s GOP John Gibbs. John Gibbs, supported by the ex-President, founded a “think tank” called the Society for the Critique of Feminism where he argued that the country would be better off if women could not govern or vote. He stated that “this is the best model for the continued success of a society.” And, he asserted that women are not as capable as men at thinking logically “without relying upon emotional reasoning.” As Gibbs goes on to proclaim, “It is clear that the female species were the ones selected by nature to rear children.” He uses the…

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October 30, 2022

Peace

Bruised But Not Broken

There is an episode of the TV show, The Walton’s, when a zealous young writer, John Boy, in May of 1937 drives from Virginia to New Jersey to see the Hindenburg dock. His intent was to report the event back home. His enthusiasm quickly fades as he watches the horror of the airship exploding and going up in flames right before his eyes. Once jubilant, he returns home broken and in shock. He struggled to write about the event for his emotions overcame him. This is the nature of a disaster. Hurricane Ian is an experience that many lived through and an event that has taken homes, neighborhoods, towns, livelihoods, and lives. We are so saddened by the events resulting…

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October 5, 2022

Social Justice

In Good We Trust

We accidently turned on the wrong channel the other night and the Ohio rally came on. We watched for about two minutes as the ex-President spewed hate and lies while directing his followers in a Nazi like raised arms, one-finger salute. A narcissist who is so full of rage and, yes, fear. The basic fear of a narcissist is that of being found inferior. What we watched for those two minutes was pure fear of being found a failure. The ex’s rhetoric was full of judgement and insanity rolled into a raging ball of emotional fire. It was disgusting as were the people staged behind the monster. Do those people crave a leader like him so badly that they will…

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October 5, 2022

Social Justice

Who Are Those People?

Who are those “Americans” who praise a single party authoritarian regime? Who are those people who are unadulterated evil and whose desire could drain our country of our Democracy? They are operatives and spies and are despicable people who are involved in espionage right under our noses. People who are so small that they must hold all the wealth and political power they can. They move in clumps, never seen alone, and they work in packs like wolves, spouting the same rhetoric while condemning men and women who do not think or look like them. By their actions, it is impossible to tell them apart. They are nihilistic people who preach moral principles but at the same time reject them.…

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September 1, 2022

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