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Women's March, New York City, January 21 The NYPD were fantastic. I felt safe and in great hands at all moments during the march. I repeatedly saw officers posing graciously for photos with out-of-towners. And in Washington DC, Mom and Livia Mom and Joan Asha and Mason holding the sign And Tony in Portland …
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And farewell Obama. You have been the best, most inspiring President of my lifetime. I have never been prouder and more honored to be an American than during the past eight years. We will miss you. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -Martin Luther King Jr. …
Wishing you PEACE, LOVE, and UNITY in 2017
(image by Sharon Cummings) From Abraham Lincoln's 1855 Letter to Joshua Speed Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will …
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We shopped until she d r o p p e d.
She says: He put the dog down She says: I want a chocolate milkshake She adds: And fries She says: He said she had a good life, finally She says: He said everyone loved her in the end She says: I bought a new face cream called “vital glow” She says: Try some She …
The Way to Have Everything In order to know everything don’t want to know anything at all. In order to enjoy everything don’t want to enjoy anything at all. In order to own everything don’t want to own anything at all. In order to be everything don’t want to be anything at all.
We're old older not that old One of us is dying We suffer the humiliation of "Hello ladies" graciously
Someone told me that of course my poems will not change the world. I answer that yes of course my poems will not change the world.
My family and I dressed all in white and welcomed in the New Year of 2016 on the Copacabana Beach together with thousands of Rio citizens. We watched a fireworks display like no other I have ever seen, so spectacular and relentless, the overwhelming visual pleasure of it recalibrated for me the word awe. There …
Jenny McPhee 