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Photography Political

From a distance

While not as large as many of the other demonstrations today, the St. Louis anti-war rally did bring 2000 people out of their warm homes into the cold, icy rain and snow. More people attended than the church could hold and we spilled out into the street, listening to the speeches on the loud speakers. […]

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Writing

Rah

In case it got lost in the discussion about politics in the last post, I finished the book. Rah.

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History

Against Images of the War to Be

Archived with comments at the Wayback Machine Today and tomorrow, people from throughout the world are gathering in protest of a single action: war in Iraq. Why is that we never seem to unite as a people, crossing boundaries of religion and country, except when we unite around the issue of war? The warbloggers, both those for […]

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Writing

Draft if finished, world didn’t end

In between covering our windows with plastic and applying duct tape around any cracks and crevices, I finally finished the first draft of Practical RDF tonight. I need to do some clean up and re-numbering and then will repost the chapters one more time for one final review. In a few weeks, if we survive […]

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Just Shelley

Passing Notes

Two of my favorite people are having a hard time getting each other’s emails, so I offered to act as a go-between until the email problem was resolved. As I wrote them this morning, this reminded me of an incident that occurred when I was in the 9th grade. I sat between one of the […]