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Month: February 2018

Thoughts and Prayers

Thoughts and Prayers

To all the politicians out there who are sending their thoughts and prayers in light of the latest mass slaughter of our nation's children, may I remind you that, while you may pray anytime you want in this country, as many of us are doing right now, we didn't send you to Washington to pray … Continue reading Thoughts and Prayers

Posted on February 19, 2018January 3, 2021 by laurisburnsPosted in Causes, PoliticsLeave a comment

Who Is She?

Writer, reader, traveler, political junkie, foodie, photographer wannabe, multi-topic ranter and raver, social animal, secret introvert, believer in the power and passion of human beings to create a better worldWoman with book

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Literary Quotes

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Quotes

“I ask no favor for my sex; all I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid. Now it’s time for you to build on it. Now, it’s your turn. Get to work.” Amelia Boynton Robinson,          Civil Rights Activist, 1911 – 2015

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Podcasts I’m Listening to

Driving the Green Book

James Baldwin’s America

Cape Fear Unearthed

Michelle Obama

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Reversing Roe

Queen of Katwe

A Most Beautiful Thing

Uncle Frank

Hillbilly Elegy

The Queen’s Gambit

La Bamba

13th

The Half of It

Fargo

Schitt’s Creek – Series

Orange is the New Black – Series

That’s My Boy!

A chip off of which block? I love that when I tell my son that I’m going to Arequipa, he doesn’t ask where is it or why but says “Wow! It looks like a great place. And they have incredible food. I just googled it.”

Where Do They Hear This?

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Phones are not the problem. pic.twitter.com/PueOw9YVgO

— Oppositionista (@BlueWaveYes) April 11, 2018

Well said!

What I have to say about that …

My World This Morning

There’s something particularly jarring about opening your computer in the morning and seeing a screen displaying what appears to be a man bound and tied with rope being thrown into a river while an angry crowd looks on. It’s made more jarring by the juxtaposition of this image with an ad for an “essential” nonstick pan.

It turns out that the man is actually a colonial slave trader statue which has been torn down in the UK. The fact that the event occurred in another country makes it feel even more jarring. The protests against police brutality are worldwide. I hear “this time things must change,” and try to be hopeful. We’ve heard these phrases too many times before.

Is the Covid-19 pandemic any less of a threat now that it was when the world closed down three months ago? The death toll worldwide has passed 400,000. Businesses are opening up and people are excited to get “back to their lives.” The threat feels greater than before, as people pretend that it is gone, going out to dinner, to the gym, to crowded protests. I fear that the number of asymptomatic people out there thinking they’re safe has increased dramatically while all of this goes on. They’re not feeling sick. And they don’t believe that they can pass the virus to other people.

 

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