SPEAKING MY HEART

Want Summer? Heat Index: 121

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:52:00 GMT

The days of revolutionaries penning manifestos in candle-lit garrets are over, just as preconceptions about the nature of crowds in the streets are being tested. When the English writer Thomas Fuller said, "The mob has many heads but no brains", he surely wasn't speaking of Iran, a nation where the literacy rate is nearly 100%, education is valued and political savvy is common. Today, as events in Iran compel world attention, Facebook and Google pages are being tra...
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Blues Traveling

Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:35:00 GMT

Kurt Cobain Meets Lead Belly

Sat, 23 May 2009 18:40:00 GMT

A few years ago, the mother of a dear friend passed away. As often happens, some of her possessions were offered to those who'd known her as tokens of remembrance. Another friend who's a plant lover was especially interested in keeping alive some of Enid's favorite flowers, so a bush or two and some potted blooms came back to Houston, while a scrubby little cactus in a hanging basket went to live at The Place.For years The Place, a cabin tucked into 23 acres of Te...
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Teddy, a Turtle and Spud

Sun, 3 May 2009 13:02:00 GMT

When dinner’s over, the leftovers go into the refrigerator, or perhap to the garbage or compost pile. When the sewing project’s done, the scraps may be set aside for quilting, or they may be thrown away. Now and then, after I’ve pruned the plants, I wonder - should I toss the trimmings, or start yet another pot of green-and-growing-something I have no room to maintain?In a world so consumed with worries about “not enough”, it’s ironic that there’s of...
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Taught by a Heron's Heart ~ DMCA

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Writing has brought innumerable changes to my life. In addition to solving quite concrete and practical problems like finding enough time in a day to write, I've been forced to confront issues which, quite frankly, didn't concern me even a year ago.One of those issues is content theft, known more formally as copyright infringement. Across the web, musicians, photographers, writers and artists of every sort have been forced into a kind of guerilla warfare with folks...
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