RIP Teddy: “The Dream Shall Never Die”

“If by ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate [...]

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Give the Earth an hour

For the second year, I intend to honor Earth Hour this Saturday night,
March 28th at 8:30pm local time. The goal this year is 1 billion participants turning off all lights as acknowledgement of the seriousness of Global Warming. Last year I took a moonlit walk that hour. It was a profoundly [...]

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OBLIVIOUS TO THE ROSE

c/p BlueMassGroup
 
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns;
the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”                                                                          [...]

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POWER TO TRUTH

c/p Seeing the Forest blog
“Beauty is truth,
truth, beauty,
that is all Ye know on Earth,
And all ye need to know.”
                                   -Keats
 

 

I’m looking forward to a new reign of truth, a renewed age of transparency,
reason and reasonableness in [...]

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What Time Is It?!

 
Obama Win Causes Obsessed Backers To See How Empty Lives Are
                                                                                        -The Onion
 
Failure [...]

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FIRED UP & READY TO GO!

  November 6 update:
I took a few days off from working right before the election to devote them to the campaign and related activities. Sunday was tough as we were sent into a very republican area in New Hampshire near the Maine border to canvass. My friend Heidi [...]

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Reach for the Stars

“Our World At My Fingertips”
Alan Bean, 2005 

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