It all seemed to turn around after I met Bob Marley. The day was kind of sour, but he said something to me I won’t soon forget. “Will you roll this joint for me?” I couldn’t believe it at first, but then I watched his fingers fumbling with the paper. Bright green stuff peppered the …
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True Dreams Never Die
One of my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quotes: “I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity’s affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that …
The Obsolete Wall
Not so long ago… “In our opinion the German people wish to have one united country. If the Soviet Union had lost the war, the Soviet people themselves would object to a line being drawn through Moscow and the entire country defeated in war. We wouldn’t like to have a line drawn down the Mississippi …
Saturday Morning Cartoon Time
When you’re a child, time is divided into categories: breakfast time, school, recess, dinner time, bed time. Time is this nebulous concept, because there seems to be no standard for the divisions. It’s only when we learn about hours, minutes, etc. that we start to develop a sense of length in time. There’s time enough …
Love Is A Sandwich
Don’t quote me on this, but I’ve heard that within the Japanese language there is no word for love. They have words for respect and admiration and even extreme like, but no word with a direct literal meaning of love. This is interesting to me (and you, my one Japanese reader), because we know that …
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