Sometimes I am ashamed to be White.  That's right.  I am regularly ashamed to be from the South, especially from Tennessee.  Why?  Because of all the beauty to be found in our landscape in the south and in Tennessee in particular, there is so much ugliness in the soul of its people ( Read more... )

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I'd noticed this...difference, this separation, in the indigenous religions of North America...or rather the 'god-fearing Christians' that participated in the cultural celebrations of the paths of the First Nations.  This ( Read more... )

Please repost if you agree that women should be the final decisionmakers in matters of reproductive health care and should not be made criminals for miscarriages or made to carry children conceived in cases of incest or rape.  This measure will be voted on Tuesday in the state of Mississippi, and there are similar measures up for voting in several ( Read more... )

If you love your friends, be a true friend and ask questions, then listen, if there is something you or they do not understand ( Read more... )

And now we are left to figure out how to mourn an ICON.  Truly this the end of an era.  And though the physical body may be gone, the spirit is so integral to so many, so much a part of everyone she knew...how?   Grief is strange ( Read more... )