Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Jazz Theorbo
My beautiful sibling Dušan Ballarin (University of North Texas, Indiana University, Juilliard) is one of a very few who study Renaissance/Baroque music who could pull off showing up at the Cloisters to accompany the peerless Cécille McLorin Salvant on his… Continue reading
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Encompassing – Bright Truth – Wonderful
This is a song that I started singing a few days before my dissertation defense as I walked around my neighborhood in the early morning. I think the tune goes back to when I was in the Seminary? I know… Continue reading
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For Tihleigh, 21 Oct 2023
If you do not bring your friends up with you, who will? If you do not let your friends bring you up, who really can? There is nothing else to lifting each other up than beholding that the greatest truth—freedom—obtains… Continue reading
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APHORISM 02 OCT 2023
Uncertainty has three profiles: DREAD FINITIUDE BOREDOM Continue reading
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APHORISM 01Oct2023
The Divine Good, being omniscient, can never forget. But as Good Being, chooses to not remember, letting-go of condemnation in the face of honest repentance. When we forgive ourselves for our actions–for all we have done that we should not… Continue reading
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Unionized Auto Workers Are Taking on a Three-Headed Behemoth of Big Capital | Truthout
…there’s another sense in which the UAW’s fight is everyone else’s fight. In taking on the Big Three automakers, auto workers are quite literally confronting a three-headed behemoth whose leadership and governance are closely embedded and directly interlocked within a… Continue reading
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APHORISM 16July2023
What good is a chance if you do NOT take it? Do you think opportunities just lie about waiting for when you feel ready? No! The opportune time is a moment of recognition: The weird winds of life have blown… Continue reading
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The Devil and Thomas Jefferson
America is ruled by Mammon wearing the skin of Christian Nationalist Jesus. But that doesn’t mean all hope is lost… Continue reading
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Sometimes… Faith
a small poem on the synesthetics of faith in humanity Continue reading
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Finding unexpected meanings
Take care with how you read but do not be afraid to find new interpretations. Continue reading
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Targeting for erasure
The Christofascists are building up to lead a violent program against QUILTBAG Folx. Continue reading
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What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
Towards the end of last year America began running short of medicines used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), including Adderall (an amphetamine) and Ritalin (a central-nervous-system stimulant). Nine in ten pharmacies reported shortages of the medication, which tens of… Continue reading
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Tina Turner: Simply the Best
R. I. P. Tina Turner (1939-2023), one of the best entertainers with a real gift for transcending circumstances and being open to change. 🙏namaste sibling🙏 Continue reading
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The coming schism
An op, Ed from the Los Angeles Times that speaks to the growing rift between the highly conservative United States. Bishops conference for the Catholic Church here, and the Vatican, specifically, Pope Francis. While the pontiff makes every effort to… Continue reading
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What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways?
When will Texas get real mass transit and stop enriching the companies that build roads??? Continue reading
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The fast fascist creep
It amazes me that 80 years on from the end of World War II, I still must share with my students to show them quotes like this. Look! It is happening around them and they do NOT pay attention… The… Continue reading
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More pollution for less pollution?
Rocks unearthed here [in Indonesia] contain traces of nickel, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries. Extracting it, refining it and readying it for export is a gargantuan task. More than $1 billion has been sunk into the processing facility,… Continue reading
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