Monthly Archives: August 2021

Pour vs Spill

A liquid measuring cup has but one key job in the world to do. That is to pour liquid. To pour it straight and true, not to dribbling it willnilly down the side of the cup and onto the floor, the counter, and one’s clothes. But not in one in ten actually does this job. […]

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Throwback

August, 2017 Davao City, Philippines Language Learning: This week I’ve just been tired and frustrated and discouraged by a lot of things. They are all mostly little things, things I can’t fix, things that don’t matter, and it’s probably really about a lack of sleep or something I ate. They are also largely things that […]

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Pray for Afghanistan

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Things to pray about

pray, follow the stories, contact people who can do something- and should. Donate. I don’t know what every person ought to be doing, but it sure feels like just feeling sick over it is useless. For full information, see the reports filed by Gentlerespectful parenting.  They are thorough and very well done. Syesha Mercado,  Tyron Deener, […]

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19th Century Black Poet Albery Whitman

Albery Whitman was born into slavery in 1851. He died in 1901. He was orphaned at 12. Freed during the Civil War. He was a handyman, a teacher, a railroad worker, a financial representative, a preacher, and a poet. His poetry was so well known during his lifetime that he was called the Poet Laureate […]

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