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2022 Affirmations

I am better and better everyday. I am grateful for the body I live in. My body is healthier every day. My health is always worth the sacrifice. My body is healing right now. I am enough.

Our adult kids visited for the holidays. The oldest gave all of us Magic starter decks. Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic or MTG) is a tabletop collectible trading-card game created by Richard Garfield. Released in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast, Magic was the first trading card game. We played daily when theyContinue reading “Magic with Family”

February Reading Project

I read books to find relevant knowledge and absorb it. For Black History Month I am reading textbook on black history. This textbook – Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present, by Nell Irvin Painter, is not part of the class syllabus but I think parts amplifies what we areContinue reading “February Reading Project”

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

February 1, 1965 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and more than 250 Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 250 activists to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama, to register to vote. All of them were arrested during the peaceful demonstration and charged with parading without a permit. In a letter written fromContinue reading “Day in the History of Racial Injustice”

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 31, 1964 ~ Louis Allen, witnessed a murder of an NAACP activist by a white state legislator, was murdered in Mississippi.

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Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 30, 1956 ~ Dr. Martin King Jr.’s house in Montgomery, Alabama, was bombed while he spoke at a mass a meeting; King later addressed an angry crowd and asked for nonviolence.

Self Portrait Sunday

Much of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions. To remove that hurt, we have to remove our wrong perception. Thích Nhất Hạnh (October 11, 1926–January 22, 2022) The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guidingContinue reading

Day in the History of Racial Injustice

January 29, 1908 ~ Federal court bared “mixed blood” Alaskan students from white schools unless they assimilate. January 29 1883 ~ In Pace v. Alabama, U. S. Supreme Court upheld law criminalizing interracial sex and marriage.