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Read more: The misogynist manifestoIn its fall 2024 issue, Ms. magazine calls Project 2025 “the misogynist manifesto.” Project 2025, for example, “directs the president to develop policies and programs…
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Read more: Wait and be calm“By waiting and by calm you shall be saved. In quiet and in trust your strength lies.” –Isaiah30:15 I found this verse in Martin Laird’s…
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Read more: Silence the soul“The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy and yet exceedingly shy,” says Parker Palmer, the Quaker teacher. “If we want to see a…
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Read more: The time is nowIn her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris quotes James Baldwin: “There is never a time in the future in which we will work…
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Read more: Tell them who you areIn her autobiography The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris stresses that one of her mother’s favorite sayings was: “Don’t let anybody tell you who you…
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Read more: Speak the truthVice President Kamala Harris talks about truth in her autobiography The Truths We Hold. “We cannot solve our most intractable problems unless we are honest…
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Read more: Buy a lot of booksWe should buy a lot of books, says Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. There are those who buy only one book, read only that…
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Read more: Books as medicineConsider books as medicine, says Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. If books are medicine, “we understand that it is good to have many at…
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Read more: Too many books?I am—reluctantly—trying to get rid of a few books. Too many books? Impossible, said Umberton Eco, Italian writer and philosopher. He owned 50,000 books! “”It…
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Read more: I fellYikes! I fell. No broken bones. Probably nerve damage. I am walking slowly with some pain. My husband Jerry has been a very attentive nurse,…