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    Pictures from Senegal

        My good friend Kandi, now tavelling the world, shares these gorgeous pictures of Senegal on her Instagram page.   The African Renaissance Monument. Marks #senegal 50 years of #independence and…

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    Galileo on God

    (Brain Pickings Weekly)   Starting in college, I began hearing how the Roman Catholic Church supposedly tormented Galileo, religion, of course being the squasher of science and human brillance. It was only…

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    Transforming Blight into Beauty

        Really inspirational video here from Christianity Today on one woman’s mission to transform inner city Detroit, one garden at a time.   Gardening to Make Beauty Out of Blight from…

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    Poetic Motion

        Editor’s note: This interview was conducted by me in early 2012 for Jumping at the Sun and first appeared there. ~Alisha     Much like her nickname, Nekeisha “Poetrinmotion” Blandin,…

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    Slouching towards WWIII

    (Zazzle)   One of the few reasons I remain on Facebook is the equally random and awesome conversations I wind up having, like one I had on Tuesday about North Korea’s latest…

  • kanye

    To my K…

      Happy Valentine’s Day, Babe.  

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    Music you should hear: The xx

    (Source)   I’m not sure how I missed them for the last four years, but I’m so happy to have discovered the British indie pop group, The xx. Consisting of Romy Madley…

  • m1

    Mardi, puis Mercredi

    Zoe and Callie Cabbage Patch all decked out for Mardi Gras.     So yesterday we celebrated Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday with fruit filled pastries, beads, jazz, reggae and beans and…

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    Post script.

    (source) So the very cool Rod Dreher linked to my post, “Imitation of Life” yesterday, and hundreds of page views later, instead of feeling excited that my little old blog has been…

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    An addendum to the “pursuit”.

        My friend David passes along an interesting little tidbit on the phrase “the pursuit of happiness” related to my post here. He writes:   “During the times of the Founding…