July 2010
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From Sea to Shining Sea
Today’s the big day…
The bikers have arrived and I feel almost as if I’m back at my first day of school, getting thrown into the mix with a new teacher, a new person to learn from and grow with. I guess that’s what it really is, when you think about it—new teachers riding from the inland, racing to feel the touch of the ocean with fresh minds ready to learn.
Remembering the day the bikers...
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Simple Is The Ordinary Courageous Human Being’s...
“At its birth, violence acts openly and even takes pride in itself.But as soon as it is reinforced and its position is strengthened,it begins to sense the rarefied atmosphere around it,and it can go further only when fogged about with lies,cloaked in honeyed hypocritical words.
It does not always nor invariably choke its victims;more often it demands of them only the oath of the lie,only...
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Creativity & Cartoons in Congo
I’ve wanted to be a grown up for as long as I can remember.
I remember vividly the conversation my friends and I had during middle school. We could hardly wait to be on our own and make grown up decisions; to finally be independent from the rules of our parents and teachers. Never did we imagine that some kids would actually dream of just being kids. But that’s what happens when the trauma...