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Top Comments - No Day But Today
To being an us for once, instead of a them ... Man! Larson's lyrics give me chills! I first saw RENT when it came to my hometown well over a decade ago. It touched me very deeply, with its intense...
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Top Comments - Not Yosemite, not Glacier, no ... Jones Gap!
Some of my favorite diaries are written by Ojibwa and others who visit some of the world's most beautiful places! I've 'travelled' with them to Yosemite, to Glacier Park, to other unfathomably...
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Top Comments - The Bigger I Are, the Harder I Fall
This is a second in an immediately ending series of diaries about my hiking excursions with my dear sister. In this one, we returned again to Jones Gap State Park, where we hiked last weekend. Last...
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Top Comments - ACLU Survey Time
I just received an ACLU 50-State Survey in the mail (due back by 9/30/14 - never fear, it mails tomorrow). They want ‘feedback’ about South Carolina.It was a pretty easy survey to take. All of you...
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Top Comments - German Words and Political Behavior
I have a friend (I’ll call him Alan (not his real name) ) who takes special joy in humorous accounts or situations that involve particularly difficult consequences for the butt of the joke, the victim,...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/18/2014
It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was dry The sun so hot I froze to death, Susannah don't you cry Stephen Foster’s classic lyrics from Oh! Susannah made use of dichotomy pairs, but...
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Top Comments - Interviewing for Nurturance
I recently read a story about a young woman who was beginning a teaching career at a Charter school. I am sorry, I do not know many details, I do not know the name of the school or its location. I do...
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Top Comments - Little Deaths
Little deaths ...The first time I recall the concept of 'little death' was in Frank Herbert's book, Dune. He had this marvelous convention of beginning his chapters with a pithy quotation. This one...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 10/3/2014
I wrote a KTK diary a couple of weeks ago about one of my favorite topics: creativity. In that diary I wrote about dichotomy pairs, and of my admiration for Jonathan Larson’s thesis I use for my sig...
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Top Comments - Heating From Within
We had a shot of colder air this weekend. Not cold like many of you experience, I understand! But it required a small adjustment on our part all the same. My favorite time of year is autumn with the...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 10/17/2014
I thought for tonight I would take a few moments to look into what we’re doing in KTK: kibitzing. It has broader and narrower definitions, but is one more correct than another?More below the fleur de kos!
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Top Comments - On the Biblical Justification of Hatred and Hatefilled Behavior
I am no theologian. I never speak about my spiritual beliefs because, like many others, I fit into a category of one. I think of myself as deeply spiritual, but I don't believe my 'soul' will be...
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Top Comments - Tim Scott and the 'DNA of Hope"
As most of you know, I live in a very difficult state for Democrats. All the best possibilities for Democrats are elsewhere, this election cycle, so I have been surprised to see the level of interest...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 10/31/2014: Fiction Edition
Anyone who peeked at the Top Comments diary I wrote on Monday saw a story about current junior Senator from my state, Tim Scott. He seems nice, if you don't look below the surface. If you don't look at...
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Top Comments - An Eggplant Could Get Elected in South Carolina
Yes, an Eggplant Could Get Elected in South Carolina, as long as it goes on the ballot with an 'R' next to its name.Here you go, South Carolina! Your next Republican public 'servant!'(Yes, I use the...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 11/14/2014: Marriage Equality and Southern Spite
News coverage in this area this week focused on a remarkable development. Subject to appeal, the state of South Carolina's ban on marriage equality was overturned as unconstitutional. The judge that...
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Top Comments - The West Wing, on Mediocrity
I have written about West Wing episodes in other diaries. It is the one identifiable catalyst leading to my personal re-politicization … the contrast it provided with … hideous political trends of the...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 11/22: Smiles and What It’s All About
Good Saturday to you!This week the entire nation has followed the progress of marriage equality in the most unlikely of places: our intensely red state of South Carolina.I would not suggest that it was...
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Top Comments is closed tonight, due to breaking events in national news. All of the windows have been boarded up so they cannot be smashed and the comment threads re-spooled. The welcome mats have been...
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Top Comments - November Honor Roll
I wanted to try something different tonight. Over the years we have written many times about comment search meta, about finding comments, about the importance of submitted comments. It often happens...
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