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rediscovered: October 1, 2023, 6:55am
i was searching my inbox for an email, and this link, as well as older emails, came up. Gmail is fascinating in that sense, predawn hour as we wait for the sun to rise, the tea and coffee to steep/percolate, the tiny ferocious cat preening and the ocean, a stone's throw away, pending the rising sun in a cloudy autumn sky.
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Mortality
We humans are so fragile and mortality is so tenuous. It's so easy to forget that we are in fact, the stuff of mortals and not invincible. Until you get that phone call that one of your own has passed. The night before last a dear friend never woke up to his alarm and we are all struggling with the verb that is grief. It was a shock to the system. ( Read more... ) -
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I stood in line for an hour and a half this morning and not one person left. This list could keep going, and I encourage you to add to it if you so desire ( Read more... ) -
Lesbian RIghts Pioner Dies at 87
Goodybe, Del.
From the San Francisco Gate(08-27) 14:57 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin, whose trailblazing activism spanned more than five decades, most recently in the battle for same-sex marriage, died Wednesday, just two months after she made history again by wedding her longtime partner in San Francisco City Hall ( Read more... ) -
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More photos from around the city...
The sun setting over the houses from the front window
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America's AIDS Apartheid
America’s AIDS Apartheid, by Kai Wright
This Article is from the July 8, 2008 issue of The American Prospect. Full Text to follow.
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Book Reviews: May through June
The Judges, by Elie Wiesel Wiesel is best known for his Holocaust survival memoir Night, and his work continues along the vein of questioning good, evil, innocence, and guilt when five random strangers are brought together by a man who refers only to himself as 'The Judge,' forcing them to question the truth, effort, and perhaps even the futility ( Read more... ) -
Finally, A J-O-B
So I never mentioned it to many folks for fear of jinxing myself, but I was offered a position with Community Behavioral Health within the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health as an Analyst of Continues Quality Improvement. That's a mouthful, but essentially I will be analyzing the large data sets from the surveys conducted by the City, and ( Read more... )
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