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* The Olympics or Congress? Let’s see……..

Thursday, February 18, 2010

This blog writer has been “silent” for a while, not for lack of material—God knows the drama of the Winter Olympics and the soap opera in the U.S Congress provide plenty of grist. (Could there be any two venues that provide a more perfect thesis and antithesis of inspiration?) 
Rather I have been busy generating a [...]

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* What’s the Story?

Monday, February 23, 2009

When I was in undergraduate school at Linfield College in the 60s, my cadre of friends studying Religious Philosophy would drink strong coffee and discuss whether the prophets of various religions predicted the future or created it. Since I’m a believer in the power of declaration, I always came down on the side of creation.
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* Empathy and Inspiration: Biological Link

Thursday, February 5, 2009

February 5, 2009.
From the Morning Edition, July 18, 2005, comes an editorial by Iranian-born writer Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) about empathy and its function in allowing us to experience the commonality between people of different heritages. She remarks, “Whenever I think of the word empathy, I think of a small boy named Huckleberry [...]

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