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February is Black History Month: Lift Every Voice and Sing
February is Black History Month and I have been searching the web for a nice rendition of the song Lift Every Voice and Sing. This is otherwise known as the Negro or Black National Anthem. I found an excellent performance recorded on YouTube by over one hundred students and alumni of the Historically Black Colleges…
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Time Travel Thoughts
I’ve been bugged by a quote bouncing around in my head for the last few days: “The second hand always moves forward.” I think a head coach for a college basketball team said that several times in the heat of the last period of a game (maybe March Madness, I don’t know) about 8 or…
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Dave the Handyman vs Ceiling Lights
David Sheldahl is a local handyman who has fixed a lot of things around our house. A couple days ago he installed a lot of new ceiling lights. The old ones were complicated enough that I stopped trying after breaking a couple of the junction boxes. When it comes to handyman chores, I have a…
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Kindness Alert: Snowblower People and Shovel People Unite
We got walloped by that blizzard I mentioned yesterday. It left about 5-8 inches at least with a gift mountain about waist high on one side of our driveway left by one of the city plows. Later in the day another plow gifted us another driveway plug, not as tall but wetter and heavier. This…
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Cabinet Handle Switching for Those Who Crave Punishment
While we’re waiting for the snowstorm to hit today, we’re changing out bathroom cabinet drawer handles. This chore was probably invented by some satanic group. I would rather be shoveling snow, but the arrival of the blizzard keeps getting postponed later and later in the day. You wouldn’t think changing drawer handles would be that…
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Silence Is Not Always Golden
I don’t know where the saying “silence is golden” came from but I suspect silence is sometimes not golden. I notice that The University of Iowa quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. for MLK Human Rights Week is “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Although I…
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“Bending the Arc Toward Equity and Social Justice”: MLK Lecture by Dr. Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA
Today, Dr. Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA delivered the Martin Luther King, Jr Distinguished Lecture. It led to a long discussion between me and Sena, which is a good sign that the presentation was superb. I noticed that the title of the lecture sounded familiar. Dr. King said something very much like it…
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MLK Human Rights Week Distinguished Lecture Jan 20, 2021: Dr. Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA
Dr. Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA is scheduled to deliver the Human Rights Week 2021: Distinguished Lecture on January 20, 2021 from noon to 1:00 PM. This is by Zoom because of the pandemic, a commonplace method nowadays. I’m registered for it so I hope Sena and I can zoom in. Dr. Reede…
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Loving-Kindness Meditation in the Real World
Today is the first day of Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights Week and I’m giving a shout-out for acts of kindness as well as the Loving-Kindness meditation. A neighbor with a snowblower helped clear our driveway a couple of weeks ago. A couple of days ago he did the same for his next-door neighbor.…
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Now is the Time to Do Something
I know I promised to observe National Nothing Day, but I learned something new today about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and I figured I’d write a little something. Actually, I was not idle. So much for Nothing Day. Dr. King liked jazz music, especially bebop. Dr. King said this about jazz: “When life offers…
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