The Resolute Woman

Author: resolutewoman

  • A single thing in nature

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    My brother James and his wife Jeany have 14 turkeys on their nine acres in New Mexico. That 14 includes five babies and one mother about to give birth. I never knew that turkeys could be so beautiful, so elegant until I saw these turkeys. They are a beautiful part of nature. As John Muir…

  • Age is relative

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    Because I have a birthday coming up, I chuckled when I read this line from Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish writer. “If you are over eighty, even a 76-year-old is young.” –Joy

  • To be loved

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    I just returned from attending my nephew Will’s engagement party in New Mexico. Attending the party reminded me of a quote from George Sand: “There is only one happiness in this life—to love and be loved.” –Joy

  • Politics and conscience

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    Lincoln’s motives were moral as well as political—a reminder that our finest presidents are those committed to bringing a flawed nation closer to the light, a mission that requires an understanding that politics divorced from conscience is fatal to the American experiment in liberty under law. That’s what Jon Meacham concludes in his book And…

  • White supremacy

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    Edward Alfred Pollard wrote a book called The Lost Cause Regained in 1868. In his book, he argued: Slavery was lost, but white supremacy could endure if the white South held fast to its commitment to a racial hierarchy. I read about Pollard in Meacham’s book about Abraham Lincoln–And There Was Light. –Joy

  • Changing your mind?

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    Once, when someone accused Abraham Lincoln of changing his mind, Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have, and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

  • Atheists, socialists and communists?

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    James Henley Thornwell, a Presbyterian clergyman who defended slavery before the Civil War, once said: “The parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders. They are atheists, socialists, communists on one side, and friends of order and regulated freedom on the other.” Jon Meacham writes about Thornwell in his book about Abraham Lincoln.

  • Goodness is possible

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    Americans sometimes fall short of their ideals, concludes John Meacham in this book Abraham Lincoln–And There Was Light. “It is a fact of American history that we are not always good, but that goodness is possible. Not universal, not ubiquitous, not inevitable—but possible.”

  • Common rights and respect

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    In his book about Abraham Lincoln–And There Was Light, John Meacham writes: “This book charts Lincoln’s struggle as he defined it within the political universe he and his country inhabited—not to celebrate him for moral perfection, for he was morally imperfect, but to illustrate that progress comes when Americans recognize that all, not just some,…

  • Maternal mortality

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    These are bleak statistics. The United States ranks 46th in the world for maternal mortality, reports Ms. magazine And, the United States is the only wealthy nation that doesn’t provide paid maternity leave. Globally, paid maternity leave averages 29 weeks.