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67My Anti-War Letter to Obama
Quanyin, goddess of Mercy The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, No matter how frequently short-sighted male authority figures claim...
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69Breaking the Taboo of Mean Mothers
I’ve just started reading a book called Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt, by Peg Streep, and although I’m only on page 25, a total of five sticky tabs are already in the book. It’s...
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65General Truths About Bullies
I have been reading Cataclysm on the Columbia: the Great Missoula Floods, by John Elliot Allen. It’s a geological and historical book about the Spokane Flood in Oregon and Washington. In the...
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68My Reaction to Socialists
Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, with me at a peace conference. Clearly nonviolence should have been emphasized more at the Econvergence! Until nonviolence becomes an integral part of Socialism--and I...
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72Pressure to Have a Meaningless Life
During my last year in college, I thought I would live very frugally as a writer, not work at part time jobs for years. But after I graduated, I went straight to Topeka, Kansas, where I have many relatives...
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62A Play Based on Franz Kafka's Story "A Country Doctor"
A Country Doctor, a play by Len Jenkin, based on the short story by Franz Kafka. "To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard." --Franz Kafka. A Country...
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51Free Concerts in the Parks of Portland
Straight under the St. John's Bridge in Cathedral Park St. John's Bridge The concert at Cathedral Park The concert at Laurelhurst Park A quartet dons 18th century-style wigs to play 18th century-style music...
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69Hawthorne Street Fair
Sunday Parkways: bicycles in the middle of the street A crowd gathers around musical clowns on stilts. Monkey King action figure at Missing Link Crowds on the street Essential Elements, a New Age store, is a...
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81Discovering "Mad" King Ludwig in Bavaria
While a tourist in Bavaria, I developed a considerable interest in Ludwig II, or Mad King Ludwig. When I came back home, I read a biography of him and made a speech on Ludwig in speech...
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65Flying from the United States to Continental Europe
Back in 1988, I traveled with a school group to West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. The negative side to such travel is coping with airplanes and airports. From the time I left...
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