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The View From Here
I spent a few days last week at a friend’s cottage in the country while Maggie and Eliot visited family on the east coast. Times of solitude have become very important for me; they provide margin for reflection that is hard to come by most of the time. I took this photo while driving from…
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Looking for bugs
Our recent family vacation involved lots of reading, walks along quiet roads, swimming in a lake, cooking delicious meals and looking for bugs. In this case, a grasshopper. We’re grateful for friends who make available their cottage for our enjoyment and rest.
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Thunder Soul
The marketing folks for an intriguing documentary emailed me recently with an offer to attend an upcoming screening of Thunder Soul. The film is about the Kashmere High School Stage Band in Houston and it’s legendary leader. Learn more and view the trailer on the website.
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Chicago Writers On Chicago
Our friend Esther is editing an intriguing new blog, Off The Grid, hosted by Chicago Magazine. Each month will feature a different Chicago writer. The blog’s first author is Alex Kotlowitz (There Are No Children Here, The Interrupters) and his first article is, not surprisingly, about the violence in our city.
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“Gentrification is not magic…”
But when we talk about gentrification, understand that we really are talking about the result of actual policies endorsed, not simply by shadowy interests group, but by actual Americans, erected with the explicit intent of making sure that another group of Americans remain a permanent peon class. This is not the lens to view all of black…
David W. Swanson 