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My life, like all lives, has been a circuitous road to wherever it may be going. Sometimes there was a somewhat thought out plan about my next move, but mostly I learned how go with the flow. Although flow is a misidentifier. More like I learned how to absorb the bumps and change course. My…
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I follow a well know historian on a social media site. He posed a common question that often appears on days like today. How would the world be different if Martin Luther King were still alive? That got me to thinking. Then I saw an old clip of Dr. Kings final speech and I wanted…
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2023 has been a difficult year. In time, I will look back on this year with the pain of loss, the emptiness of longing and the darkness of heartbreak. Bad times befall every year of life, but those times are usually tempered with the good. Not 2023. I was born the sixth of seven children,…
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I work in the warehouse of a small company. It is a successful company which has been in business for over 25 years. They have recorded steady growth until the pandemic when practically all businesses suffered major fluctuations. Now, it seems, we have finally achieved some semblance of prosperity. But I fear the future successes…
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Repair and reparations are derived from the same Latin word meaning “restore.” With the current movement of offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, I have been thinking a lot about how reparations themselves can somehow repair the damage done by the harmful policies that created all wrongs done to all people of color. I…
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My life path has gone through many phases. It began in darkness with small flickers of light that kept me moving forward. The proverbial carrot on a stick. The trick was to figure out how to move toward the light without and not extinguish the flame with my forward momentum. In other words, I had…
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My best friend died over a month ago. I was with him at the end and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. As painful as it was to be present for his labored last breath, it would have haunted me to know he left this world alone. It would have been soul altering…
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Everyday is someone’s birthday. Many someone’s. With a world population of nearly 8 billion people, one day has an average of nearly 22,000,000 birthdays. 22,000,000. That’s a lot of cake and ice cream. That would be like everyone in the entire state of Florida all having the same birthday. 22,000,000 million birthday cakes all lit…
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I once told a friend of mine about how, when I was a young child, someone asked me my race in an indelicate way. “What are you?” he asked. “Filipino,” I answered. “What’s that?” he responded. After sharing this anecdote with my friend, she apologized for that experience. “I’m sorry that happened to you.” At…
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