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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Be Kind To Humankind Week

While observing construction workers going about their tasks on the river front urban renewal improvement project near my home, some philosophical …

Be Kind To Humankind Week

How The World Sees Us … | Filosofa’s Word

We’ve all heard people say that the United States is “the leader of the free world”, right?  We grew up being told that we were that shining example of democracy that other nations hoped to emulate.  Looking back, I don’t know if that was ever quite true, but I strongly suspect that at one point…
— Read on jilldennison.com/2022/08/30/how-the-world-sees-us/

The Underground Railroad & Harriet Tubman’s Fight To Free The Enslaved

The Chronicles Of History

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger… If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you… Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”Harriet Tubman

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Proud Boys associate Joshua Pruitt sentenced over January 6 attack on United States Capitol – ABC News

Joshua Pruitt came face-to-face with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer during the January 6 attack by a mob of Donald Trump supporters, the court heard.

“One look at Pruitt, and the leader of Senator Schumer’s security detail immediately saw the threat and hustled the 70-year-old senator down a hallway, having to change their evacuation route on a dime,” Assistant US Attorney Alexis Loeb told the court.

US District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Pruitt to four years and seven months in prison and three years of supervised release, the US attorney’s office said.

Prosecutors recommended a five-year sentence for Pruitt.

They described him as an aspiring Proud Boys member whose intimidating figure made him an “ideal recruit” for the attack.

A yellow circle identifies a man in a crowd entering a building.
Joshua Pruitt, who is affiliated with the Proud Boys extremist group, entering the US Capitol on January 6.(Department of Justice via AP)

Source: Proud Boys associate Joshua Pruitt sentenced over January 6 attack on United States Capitol – ABC News

Alienation

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Alienation is demoralising, the isolation crushing, especially under all the moist damp spit and pity. What can one do? Sit and cry, sure, I’ve done that. I’ve wept so often that I wonder if it is menopause or post traumatic stress syndrome from a war that’s almost half a century buried in oblivion. I ask myself daily why I do anything at all. Why?

I am from a lost generation ignorant of my roots and culture. The garbage generation. I am accused of not being able to read and write my native language, I am accused of not being able to spell in my adopted country. I am accused of living in the past. I am accused of drowning in my own pity, let alone more pity from any privileged outsider. How do I identify myself? If I can not, what will happen to my children, the making of…

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She is graduating without a gown

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

She is graduating without a gown

The child, this child of mine

May you always, always be kind

Oh this child, this child of mine

May the world be forever thine

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She is graduating without a gown

The pandemic is a hovering grey and sound

Steeped to the soul pushing us down

Oh child, oh child of mine

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Pick a star if I could polish its hind

On the dark side for sure it still shines

Your birthday, no fancy dinners, fancy wine

Baby, you’re the star, oh baby of mine.

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AUGUST 2020


Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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A Man Born of The Human Spirit

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A Man Born of The Human Spirit is published at Spillwords Press: https://spillwords.com/a-man-born-of-the-human-spirit/


A MAN BORN OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT

(Tặng anh Hoàng Xuân Sơn)

The voice of a humanitarian

Drifts across the cosmos

Soft, the kindness

Whispering sincerely

Wraps you in a single moment

You’re a star

Your scars the paint strokes

The glorious colours of your soul

You’re a star amongst stars

Wrapped in the compassion of a man

The Godly charm

Born from the human spirit.


Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

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