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New Year’s Eve Symbols

Times Square Ball Susan Serra, CKD derivative work: Sealle [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons When I read that The Ball at Times Square “has become the world’s symbolic welcome to the New Year,” I felt surprised. I never considered that The Ball had such universal meaning. I’ll tell you what I think about when I see…

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December 30, 2013

Customs

freedom, New York City, responsibility, seasons, tradition, winter
Thanksgiving Days

When I was in college, each time that I drove on the interstate highway past a certain Indian reservation, I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t see it. I repeatedly looked at maps to verify that I was looking in the right place. I could not see teepees anywhere. Watercolor painting by Karl Bodmer 1832-1834 This…

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November 28, 2013

Customs, Social Justice

agriculture, discrimination, equity, Haudenosaunee, history, Indians, indigenous, most popular, Onondaga, respect, seasons, tradition, treaties
Imaginary Friends Become Real

Adults Have Imaginary Friends Too The friendly ghosts and strangers we love devotedly though they don’t know us. Published on November 11, 2013 by Dr. Jeremy Sherman in Psychology Today: Ambigamy The above article from Psychology Today got me thinking. Like his quote from Machiavelli, I find it wonderful to be able to summon the…

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November 17, 2013

Creativity

art, audiobook narration, respect, self-talk, write, writing
Reblog: Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn

Originally posted on Dandelion Salad: Image by Anthony Catalano via Flickr by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad October 12, 2009 An excerpt from A People’s History of the United States. Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island’s beaches and swam out to get a…

Grace Buchanan Audiobooks

November 11, 2013

Social Justice

globalization, Haudenosaunee, history, Indians, indigenous, Onondaga, respect, tradition, treaties

New Year’s Eve Symbols

Thanksgiving Days

Imaginary Friends Become Real

Reblog: Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress by Howard Zinn