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Climate Evolution Is A Choice; It’s Time To Stop Cutting Living Trees For Sport
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Pain and disgust filled my body as the long bed truck pulled up beside my car at the light. The corpse of a glorious tree, at least nine feet tall, extended over the cabs top, making it at least 12 years old. My only thought was, “how can anyone be that unconscious?” In 2020 alone, 4.2 million…
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The Other America: Cultural Literacy & Tolerance
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In a pre pandemic world I once walked into a Chase bank preparing for a trip to New Zealand. The Lake Merritt area of Oakland is six miles from San Francisco in a highly educated, successful area. I walked up to the teller with my account information and asked for the exchange rate for New…
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No More Fireworks: The Cost On Society and their Racist Origins
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Every year fireworks accost my neighborhood.They are illegal and there are $1000.00 fines for their use. Fireworks traumatize many veterans with PTSD, including myself. Their cacophony can cause months of nightmares, or require the necessity of extra therapy. Some vets can be violent. During the Vietnam War, soldiers were not allowed to spend more than…
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Muted Warnings and An Invisible Killer: Why Are Scientists & Doctors Being Ignored About 5G?
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The Roman Empire slowly committed suicide by lead poisoning. They added it to their food as a sweetener, cooked in lead pots, added it to their make-up, and piped in via their water through contaminated pipes. Mount Vesuvius engulfed the city of Pompeii in A.D. 79 before the residents could act. In the end it…
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Insulated Societies And Fear: Awakening Cultural Intelligence Through The Arts
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The Covid-19 quarantine has catapulted humanity into a new phase of global awareness through internet-based interaction. Professional and community based online communication has become a literal life stream. Sadly, prior to the pandemic, we had already started to see a push towards cultural isolationism as a knee jerk rejection of globalism by the fearful. Insular societies…
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Poetry Online: Featured on KPFA Radio for National Poetry Month
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On Saturday, May 2, I was honored to be invited to read two of my poems for National Poetry Month 2020, on KPFA radio’s B.A.J.A.B.A. on JaZzLine (Bay Area Jazz and Blues Artists). The poems read (in order) are Spirit Chaser (Guide for the Departing) and The In-Between. Destiny Muhammad provides the amazing background music for…