Tag: America

  • Yell Louder

    Yell Louder

    Sometimes I feel as though I am yelling across an empty canyon. I spend countless hours, thousands of hours of my short life writing stories that a handful of faithful friends read. Obviously I don't do it for money, this writing alone on days when[..]
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  • They Will Never Abandon Him

    They Will Never Abandon Him

    They kidnapped him and shipped him off to an ICE facility in Louisiana. And if you don't think it could happen to you or your loved ones, you need to pull your head out of your arse. You are completely delusional. This is what they[..]
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  • A Conversation in Harrogate

    A Conversation in Harrogate

    Her name is Tracey. She's in her early 50s and works in the insurance business, mostly from her flat. She had plans, once her son finished uni. "I thought it was going to be a time to focus on me, on the things I wanted[..]
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  • The Electorate

    The Electorate

    Our biggest challenge is electing politicians worthy of the country they represent. Politicians who stop tearing the country down every time they lose. That was the admonition I heard from a news show host this morning. The host went on to say that this country[..]
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  • God Not the Guns

    God Not the Guns

    They say it is about God not the guns ... They say it's because America needs to humble itself before God. They say it's because we took prayer out of schools. They say it's because we are no-longer a God-fearing nation. They say it's because[..]
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  • Evidence of Our Humanity

    Evidence of Our Humanity

    I remember the first time I realized what an angry people Americans are. I'd pretty much gone about life thinking that Americans overall were generally kind folks who really cared about one another. For the most part, that was the bubble in which I lived.[..]
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  • The Half Enlightened

    The Half Enlightened

    Every time I hear somebody say "I'm not getting the vaccine because I don't trust it or I don't need it,"  I think of my father-in-law who was crippled from polio at age 3, and underwent a dozen operations during his childhood, and years of[..]
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  • Can You Feel It?

    Can You Feel It?

      There is an Appalachian word that been on my mind all day - Airish. You might hear one of the locals say, "Hit's kinda airish today." What they mean is the air feels lighter, not as much humidity or heaviness to it. They say it[..]
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  • From Cornbread & Collards

    From Cornbread & Collards

      Like thousands across this nation, I start back to school next week. My graduate program was always going to be through distance learning so Covid doesn't disrupt that. As this week's DNC proved, there is a lot to be gained from virtual realities. Narrative[..]
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  • Riding Shot-Gun

    Riding Shot-Gun

      I came across this photo while looking for another. Everyone in this picture has gone on to be with God except for me and the babies. The two I'm carrying and the one sitting at the table. That's Mama, the baby of her family,[..]
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