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Living on the trigger’s edge
I am always worrying about our vulnerability as individuals living in a contaminated environment, or about the instability of our planetary ecosystem now that global heating is underway. But one thing...
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Standing strong against the Furies
AUDIO OF THIS PIECE READ BY JBH ON WAMC-NORTHEAST PUBLIC RADIO, DECEMBER 21, 2012 Just as people in places like the Maldives, Bangladesh and Japan shook their heads at the cluelessness of Americans who...
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Living with fear
In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, I have been doing some thinking about fear. I am no stranger to anxiety. When I was a kid, between the ages of about 8 and 12, I suffered terrible anxiety attacks...
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American Mothers Must Unite Against the Culture of Violence
A couple of weeks ago, when I heard that my 14-year-old son and his friend had been playing with the other boy’s air-soft pistols by shooting each other at close range, I saw red. “But it just stings...
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Dreams of terror, dreams of peace
This morning my son came down to breakfast with a queasy look on his face. “I had a dream that I killed a baby,” he said. “I was shooting with a machine gun at these guys, and the baby was in the...
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From Orlando to Dallas and beyond: dreaming of a homeland to be proud of
Since we have allowed the arming of our civilian population with military-style weapons, our country is turning into the same kind of war zone experienced by people in other countries, and animals...
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Radical Hope in Tragic Times
We have to beware of being sucked into the negative whirlpools that inevitably swirl up like black-water vortexes in the wake of mass tragedies like this one.
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