Month: June 2020

This Land is Our Land

This Land is Our Land

It seems, for the second time in my life, the words of the President are becoming irrelevant to the national discourse. The first was after the bombing of Cambodia and the Kent State Massacre. Then, Nixon’s words came to mean very little until he was ultimately forced from office. Now President Trump tweets and tweets from the…

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Black Lives Matter: The Witness of a White Man

Black Lives Matter: The Witness of a White Man

This past weekend, I had the rare opportunity to visit the Smokey Mountains in North Carolina with my adult son, Sam.  It was idyllic.  We walked mountain trails, watched birds, rested on sunny rocks beside tumbling water, and took lots of photographs.  Some photos I’ve shared on FaceBook, others I wanted to share more today.  However, the murders of…

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