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Salvaging the dignity of history
Updated 8:00 AM;
Most people react to the past based on what little bit of history they were taught in school. Or what they have seen in movies.
That’s why when people consider the South they tend to only think of two dates – 1865 and 1965.
Visitors who roll into Montgomery or Selma on tour buses sometimes arrive believing those were the only two time periods to ever pass through the Black Belt.
Both were significant. They both influenced and shaped the nation. They helped permanently define both cities.
Unfortunately, school curriculums can’t easily teach the civil and social progress that have been made as history has evolved.
Memories from an old brown bag
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
I don’t know what makes memories fall on us. Sometimes we go looking for them – driving down some old road we used to know, or talking our way back down memory lane. But other times it’s as if we just wake up one day and there they are back.
I have, as many of you have already probably suspected, a public education. I was never particularly outstanding at anything. Really I was barely average. I was terrible at that physical fitness test they tried to get us to perform every year. I don’t think they do that anymore. They hardly even do school at this point, so I’m relatively sure there is no fitness standard anybody has to get stressed out trying to adhere to.
Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
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The only Christmas carols many will hear this year that don’t come out of a speaker will be the ones they sing themselves.
Most people’s day to day lives have been changed in some way by Coronavirus, even if nothing more than having to wear a mask when they go out. But many have lost family members to it, have struggled with sickness themselves, or have suffered economically from the shutdown.
It has been said that when hard times come, love goes out the window.