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He got it. He got it right, right there, in dead-on color. He probably doesn

I found these as I was cleaning up my desk so that I could close the roll top. I picked them up years ago on one of those nasty marches re Roe vs Wade. Hee. Hee.

On Blog Sisters, Lisa English calls attention to a photo exhibition called “Family of Woman,” which opened in New York and which will be traveling to Los Angeles and Minneapolis next year. The exhibit is presented by the U.S. Committee for the United Nation’s Population Fund.
These are some thought-provoking quotes from that exhibit

sent as an email to Chris:
Well, I guess I’m still on your email list, so I’ll go ahead and thank you directly for the lovely broom. Of course I already have one, but one can always use a spare. In return I would be honored to mail you one of my copies of Erica Jong’s “Witches,” of which I have several copies, all but one received as gifts. But I won’t unless you tell me to.
Meanwhile, congratulations on your new site. That’s the kind of stuff that just might change the world (at least an important piece of the business world).
You are a worthy opponent, even though I think that, like some, you often play dirty. That’s why there are witches — or more accurately, women who cloak themselves in that kind of disturbing image.
as always
cybercrone

Shelley Powers has a really interesting post (and links to the perspectives of others) about her plans to replace her blogroll with a system of archiving and organizing the specific posts of others that she really liked. I like the idea, although there are two major reasons why I can

As I’m cleaning and cooking, I’m watching Steven Spielberg’s “Taken,” which I taped, since it runs for 20 hours. I was prepared not to like it, but as I get into the 4th segment, I find it fascinating the way he wove together the histories and myths of “the truth is out there.” The “cigarette man” from the X-Files, in his younger days, might be one of the central figures. His duplicity, immorality, total lack of conscience, and even pure evil, develop as the story line develops. What I found interesting was something that the child-voiced narrator says in relation to him — something about why people become that way — likening it to what we see often happening on the playground. “If you’re the one doing the pushing, you’re not going to be the one being pushed.”
(Addendum: Oops. He wasn’t the “cigarette man” because he died. Oh well. That’s what I get for jumping the gun.)

Welcome brand new baby boy Ruairi Michael O

Being relentless is one of my best qualities and one of my worst. It’s the one that allowed me whatever successes I had advocating for the arts and humanities in education — which are always the first to be cut out of the school budget and which many classroom teachers don’t understand how to integrate into what they already are teaching.
It’s also a quality that makes people and bloggers tell me “enough already.”
So my mantra for the coming year is going to be from my favorite translation of Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching, #8.
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight. No blame.
Not relentless like crashing waves, or incessant hail stones. Rather, relentless like the steady, even flow of clear, cleansing water. Here’s hoping.

Got this from Pearl Calico’s Corner. Roddick, a successful British business entrepreneur, has solid human values. I’m sure that her view of America is shared by most people across the Atlantic. She’s right, and it’s so tragic!