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Daily Archives: May 4, 2004
The Other Shoe Drops
My mother, who turns seventy next year, four days from now is driving from LA, alone across almost two thousand miles (she plans between ten and twelve miles a day) to visit us in New Orleans — she says, for … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged aging, birthdays, California, family, independence, parents, vacations
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The Art of War on …
Poverty, Illiteracy, Hunger, Drugs, and ultimately what I’d like to address, Terrorism. Does it appear to anyone but myself that our great “national” causes (that we cast as decisive “battles” since Johnson’s Great Society and its War on Poverty) deal … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Statements
Tagged causes, communication, mass media, national agenda, politics, rhetoric, Sun Tzu, terrorism, The Art of War, war
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