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Waking to Consciousness with The Word, Spoken
“So . . . Once upon a time, O Best Belovéd, these were the books that made me a reader and writer; the books that made me me, to a very large extent;…
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The Squirrel Amongst the Razors In Occam’s Butter Churn (OR The Rodent that Came Down The Chimney)
“For about a week now (a long time to remain this delusional, I admit), I have believed, firmly, that: 1) my husband was going round the bend; or losing his vision and sense…
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The Color Orange & My First Cousin Jesse
“Though Jesse and I—on those so very rare occasions when we meet—are more or less overcome, for the duration of our time together, and all but speechless, remembering our mutual losses, we also…
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Don’t Give Me A Gun Permit, Please . . .
Note: This column first ran following the grievous wounding of Gabrielle Giffords, among many other innocents, in Tucson AZ—perpetrated by a mentally ill young man with no business carrying “weapons of mass destruction.”…
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Of Doomsday Preppers, The Planet Nibiru & Mayan Long-Count Calendar End-Timers
“You will be, as I was, comforted that NASA has seen fit to put up a page explaining just why the world as we know it will not be coming to an end…
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Losing My Religion: Embracing Atheism in My Seventh Decade
“If I’d been compelled to label myself, from age 14 on, I would have chosen the name Agnostic. I knew that I could not trust either the gods of the Old or New…
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Facebook Un-friending & Guru Un-Following
“Ramananda John E. Welshons writes: ‘Among the many amazingly wise, loving, and insightful teachings Meher Baba offered to us was the admonition that ‘to allow yourself to be guided by an impure teacher…
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An Open Letter from Hurricane Sandy
“If, for all intents and purposes, I appear to have run my course, wiping out the Jersey Shore, Staten Island and what passes for a power grid in benighted, northeastern, Tri-State America, I…
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Leaning Backward (not Forward) in Post-Sandy New Jersey
“I have THIS to say, loud and clear, to Governor Christie and to all other science-denying and FEMA-disparaging members of Christie’s party, the Republicans: 1) Climate Change is real; 2) Several so-called “Hundred-Year…
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My Inner Obama: Leader of The Freer World
Ruminant With A View By Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This column was first published four years ago, when Barack Obama was campaigning for his first term as President of The United States. I feel…