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Blending In Love

Poetry for Palestine

When overwhelmed
I run outside
I chase my nightmares
Holding my hand
From strands of a rainbow
Gather some colours
In pots of gold

* * *
Back home, serene
I sit in a corner
With a thread of stars
And a bunch of flowers
I braid my song
Stitching my heart
On grandma’s robe

* * *
High from Heaven
Her eyes twinkle
Her smile glows
Seeing her baby
Comes back to life

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A splash of love
Falls from above
Graceful Divine
The weary soul
Swells up with joy
Tears of elation
Bows down and prays

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HMAS Australia

Pacific Paratrooper

HMAS Australia

A  ship with quite a colorful World War II history was the HMAS Australia, fondly known as “The Aussie”. The Aussie fought for almost the entire duration of the war. A county class cruiser commissioned in 1928 she was the second ship to bear the name of her country.

With the outbreak of WWII,  Aussie sailed for the Atlantic to begin her long wartime career that she was to fight on all fronts and against all enemies.  In September, 1940, she was in Operation Menace off Dakar, French West Africa.  Bombers of the Luftwaffe tried in vain to sink her whilst she was berthed alongside in Liverpool during the period when the city suffered its worst blitz. During her war service Aussie went everywhere.

In December 1941, when Japan entered the war with the Allies, Aussie became the flagship or Rear Admiral Crace, followed by Admiral…

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McMinn County’s Maus Problem

The Weekly Sift

https://www.timesfreepress.com/cartoons/2022/jan/28/maus/5265/

The decision was made January 10, but it didn’t go viral until Thursday, which also happened to be Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Board of Education of McMinn County, Tennessee had voted 10-0 to ban Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, which tells the story of his father’s experiences during the Holocaust.

If you clicked the links and read the longer versions of the story, though, “banned” wasn’t exactly the right word. The county’s 8th-grade reading program for the year had been split into four modules, each with a theme and an “anchor text”. The theme of the third module was the Holocaust, and the anchor text was supposed to be Maus. The kids would spend a quarter of the year discussing Maus while they also read supporting texts that gave them the context to understand what was going on in Maus.

The motion that passed 10-0…

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Jolly Monday … Better Late Than Never? — Filosofa’s Word

Hello fwiends … Gwammie is “under da weather” today an’ she was gonna skip Jolly Monday, but me ‘n Joyful tol’ her we’d do it.  We might not do it as good as Gwammie, but we’ll twy, okay? Joyful:  Now, Jolly … I can’t help you with Jolly Monday AND cook up a storm like […]

Jolly Monday … Better Late Than Never? — Filosofa’s Word

Day 62/67: Five Month GED, Perpetual Motion, and Graphic Proofs? — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

If proof lies in seeing with our own eyes, then those ideas which you can graph and derive from laws must be true, or are they? Like the moon forever in orbit around the earth, some proofs take a bit more time than others…   Today’s reading: Newton’s laws of motion need to be examined in […]

Day 62/67: Five Month GED, Perpetual Motion, and Graphic Proofs? — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Minbari Mondays & Three Lessons B5 s3e3 (A Day in the Strife) Teaches About Transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

This week’s review, from our year 2260 CE,  is just by me, since Ranger Mayann is now prohibited from writing to us from Minbar, where she is stationed.  So, the lessons:  Truth is important, especially around transporting people.  How a person is transported tells alot about the respect, or lack thereof, for that person. […]

Minbari Mondays & Three Lessons B5 s3e3 (A Day in the Strife) Teaches About Transportation — Inspiring Critical Thinking and Community via Books, Lessons, and Story

Las guerras

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SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Las guerras inician en los hogares, cuando el padre y la madre compiten y son adversarios, al reñir o al engañarse. Transmiten, en consecuencia, odio y resentimiento a sus hijos, a sus descendientes, que se traduce en violencia. Las guerras comienzan desde el instante en que no se olvidan ni sanan las heridas. Las guerras se vuelven reales al hacer de los recuerdos infaustos, motivos de discordia, rivalidad y venganza. Las guerras quebrantan la paz al ausentarse de los seres humanos el respeto, los valores y los sentimientos nobles. Las guerras se acentúan al prevalecer, en la gente, la ambición desmedida, al arrebatar a otros lo que poseen y al envidiar lo que han conseguido. Las guerras ensombrecen y matan cuando unos y otros se odian tanto y su ceguera, vacío espiritual e irracionalidad les impiden seguir la ruta…

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La diferencia

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Dueña de una fortuna incalculable, accionista de firmas empresariales a nivel internacional y propietaria de una mansión que contaba con biblioteca, salón de fiestas, piscina, canchas de tenis, campo de golf y muelle para yates particulares de lujo, era una mujer piadosa y sencilla, con una historia grandiosa e irrepetible, una de esas personas que no se olvidan, sensible y talentosa, que hablaba con el pordiosero y con el magnate.

Alternó con inversionistas, empresarios, políticos, gente de la realeza, mandatarios y personas famosas, y nunca dejó de visitar ofanatos, hospitales y asilos, siempre con detalles y sonrisas, palabras de aliento y mesajes positivos. A nadie lastimó por su aspecto ni por su condición económica. Era refinada, humilde, respetuosa y educada.

Si miraba, desde su automóvil lujoso, a alguna persona en la calle, en un parque, con hambre o con…

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