Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Who ‘Deserves’ Anything?
A homily from Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, on the Gospel of St. Matthew 20:1-16. The suffering that arises from the sense of entitlement. Yet verily, verily… the last shall be first and the first shall be last. https://cac.org/images/MP3s/RRHomily-2014_09_21-Deserves-128k.mp3 Continue reading
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the burden of “white ignorance”
“…modernity is cognitively marked by a broad pattern in which whites generally endorse racist views (one type of ignorance) in the period of formal global white domination, and then (roughly from the post-World War II, decolonial period onward) shift… Continue reading
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A British Tory Is An American Democrat
Here’s an indication of just how far to the right the American political discourse is, compared with Britain – the developed country most in tune with American neo-liberalism: That’s why David Came… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com And folks wonder why the right… Continue reading
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I’m Gen Y, and I’m Not a Special Snowflake. I’m Broke. | Mother Jones
If I want something beyond debt and low wages, am I simply being entitled and delusional? Source: m.motherjones.com Continue reading
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Psyche Atman Anima Soul
“The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.” Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1972). “All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… Continue reading
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Mull of Kintyre
One of my favorite songs from when I was in High School. I actually sang it to my poetry class once. Sometimes I was foolishly brave for a fairly insecure kid. 😉 Continue reading
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The life and works of Alan Watts
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Contemplation 209
Eye turning upward I falls away: Encompassing. Decisive release Continue reading
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‘Star Wars: Episode VII’ is called ‘The Force Awakens’
Star Wars Episode: VII finally has a subtitle: The Force Awakens. Disney quietly announced the title on Twitter this morning — a somewhat strange approach to what is easily the most anticipated… Source: www.theverge.com I feel it. Continue reading
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Love – To Not Be – Asleep
Faith: trusting Hope: expecting Love: creating Here comes the sun To be: having To become: flowing To not be: emptying Raindrops keep falling on my head Awake: questioning Dreaming: transforming Asleep: detaching The baffled… Continue reading
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Smoke and Mirrors: Essential Questions About “Prison Reform”
It is vitally important for those of us who have been fighting the prison-industrial complex PIC – and the brutalities foundational to it – to inquire more deeply into the reform measures being offered and the data that seem to… Continue reading
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Shedding
Taking out the trash I note a strange movement Near my feet Small garden snake Sliding and undulating Over sidewalk Happy I did not step on her Watching the slipping pattern Do not give more fright Than you have already… Continue reading
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Socratic Love
Love is simple. Continue reading
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Higher Education and the New Brutalism
The crisis of higher education is about more than a crisis of funding and an assault on dissent; it is also about a crisis of memory, agency and politics. Source: truth-out.org Continue reading
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To Those Appropriating Dia de los Muertos This Year –
Feeling like a flustered child when I see you with already pale face painted in sugar skull patterns, your up-do, your poufy dress, a complete costume that means nothing to you but “creative expression” and a chance to win Best… Continue reading
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