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Dialogues with Local Quakers
Dialogues with Local Quakers Since the fall, a small group of Quakers has held what they call a “vigil” once a week in the central square of our small town. They hold up placards that demand “Justice for” or “Freedom … Continue reading
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Tagged "coefficient of adversity", A.J. Muste, Alveda King, Ammon Hennacy, Anti-Israel demonstration, anti-semitism, Bayard Rustin, Catholic Worker Movement, character, complexity, contested fact, contests, controversy, courts of law, diplomacy, Dorothy Day, evidence, fairness, freedom, Galahad, Galilee, George Fox, hatred, heroes, Holy Grail, Israel, Jesus, judges, juries, justice and injustice, Martin Luther King Jr., negotiation, Oppressed, Oppressor, Palestine, prosecutors, Quakers, quests, schoolyard insults, Society of Friends, soul, spirit, testimony, unfairness, vigil, vigilantes, War Resisters' League
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“Things in Their Right Places”
“Things in Their Right Places” The editing of my to-be-reissued memoir has its own life rhythms. The version that appeared a decade ago included a scaffolding of explanations. At that point, I was trying to do something that received opinion, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-Israel, anti-semitism, anti-Zionism, argument, Ariadne, bigotry, biochemical, Brooklyn College, brownshirts, cause, diagnosis, doctors, editing, Freud, Germany in the 30s, Greek mythology, handicap, holistic treatment, horses, infamy, intimidation, labyrinths, memoir, Minotaur, MRI, muscular, narrative, neurologist, physiatrist, physical therapy, post modernism, purposefulness, resignation, stoicism, the unconscious, theory, therapeutic riding, Theseus, university campuses, Western medicine
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“Visitors’ Day”
“Visitors’ Day” As a writer, just now I’m between the last chapter of a revised edition of Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir, and the still-unwritten Afterward and Preface that will provide its new wrapping. As I reviewed (in more detail than … Continue reading
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Tagged "Conversions: A Philosophic Memoir", "The Gaza Girls", Adolf Eichmann, American Friends Service Committee, Americanization, anonymity, anti-semitism, Bettina Stangneth, book publication, creative work, Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer, feminine charm, FGM, genocidaire, hate crime, hijab, History, Holocaust, human rights, Israel, Jewish refugees, Jews, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, moral norms, niqab, norms of civilization, Palestinians, persecution, Quakers, satire, the Middle East, the Our Father, writing, YouTube, Zionism
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“The Comparative Lightness of Being”
“The Comparative Lightness of Being” Except for the dentistry, this old world seems to be going from bad to worse. It’s been downhill for decades. Neighborhoods going to hell. Small businesses and specialty shops closing. Anti-Semitism at a toxic high. … Continue reading
Posted in culture, history of ideas, ideology, nineteenth-century, ontology, philosophy, political, psychology, relationships, social conventions, spirituality, the examined life
Tagged "Candid Camera", "far away places with strange sounding names", "Punked", 1950's, anthropology, anti-semitism, community, cultural memory loss, culture critics, daguerreotypes, declinism, dentristy, enemies, extremism, fanatics, fast food joints, foreign, globalism, neighborhood blight, openness, over-development, post modernism, preservation, progress, relativism, showmanship, small businesses
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“Forgiveness”
“Forgiveness” I suppose the opposite of forgiveness is holding a grudge – waiting and watching the person who wronged you till you can get your own back. If so, I must be a very forgiving type. Why don’t I cherish … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, apology, army chaplains, café, Communion, etiquette, forgiveness, grudge holding, International Military Tribunal, Jewish v Christian forgiveness, Lutheranism, nazis, Nuremberg Trials, Pastor Henry Gerecke, resentment, Tim Townsend, war criminals
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“Anne Frank”
“Anne Frank” What a triumph that girl brought off! Through her unassuming, young girl’s diary, the whole world came to share the sorrows and the innocence of the persecuted Jewish people. Identifying with her was not difficult. At the time of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, anti-semitism, coming of age, Holocaust, Jewish, memoir, Shoah
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