Today, mother’s day has become a commercial venture, replete with over priced and unsustainable cut flowers, mountains of cards printed on non-recycled paper and questionable gifts. But it wasn’t started that way.
Mother’s Day creator Julia Ward Howe, who also wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” wrote the following proclamation, in part as a response […]
On April 18th I posted the possibility of a silent vigil sparked by OneDayBlogSilence.com. After some agonizing I’ve decided not to be totally silent - it seemed to me that if I were going to be silent here I also needed to be silent in the rest of my life for the day, which simply […]
We’re all struggling with the events shootings at Virginia Tech Monday. One approach has been a call for a silent vigil in the blogosphere Monday, April 30. Lorelle VanFossen announced the move and followed up with a moving account of her experience in Israel.
Among freelance writers there is some sense and a lot of confusion […]
Martin Luther King Jr, best known for his I Have A Dream speech, also spoke out in favor of peace and descent in general. Although his words come from the Viet Nam era, I think his writings have major importance today.
Consider:
King on War and Peace
King on the call to conscience
Ah, if I could write like […]
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