Category: journalism
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The United Sates is a mythic place. It’s never quite existed as billed. It elevates freedom, yet its earliest economy was based on slave labor. It fought against genocide in Europe, yet tried mightily to destroy the continent’s first peoples. It welcomed immigrants, yet across many decades and for different reasons persecuted the Chinese and…
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I lived in Venezuela for two years as a teenager. My dad was part of an international team offering training across South America on sustainable land and water resource development with a focus on agriculture. This program was created by the Organization of American States. Maybe you don’t know that organization, but it is among…
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Anna Bowles, a British writer, does volunteer work in Ukraine and writes about it. I subscribe to her blog because her work touches my heart. She’s a poet as well as an essayist and offered some of her recent published poetry in a blog titled Weapons Grade Poetry. My only words about her words are…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 