The father of a 12-year-old girl who drew this antiwar picture in her elementary school art class in Russia is facing criminal charges and a potential three-year prison sentence, and his daughter has been placed temporarily in an orphanage. The Washington Post
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He was just a young kid who had come back from Vietnam and he was telling me how deathly afraid he was when out on patrol at night opposing the Viet Cong . . .
The leaves seem to be hanging on a little longer this year, just to give us some colorful cheer in these dreadful times.
And there I was, in the old Bach choir again, not in the bass section but among the tenors now, singing away and reaching all the high notes.
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We gave so little consideration to a bolder attempt to stop Putin. We spent years pleading with him and threatened with sanctions. He scoffed at them.
He thought that Holy Mother the Church was more important than the victims who were abused in it.
They told us to look at Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch not wearing a mask, while all the other Justices are wearing theirs.Getty Images
We set the clocks back an hour last night and enjoyed the extra sleep, but the neighborhood dogs were up at their regular hour and were whining and barking for relief.
Trump taught us how to create reality just by saying, over and over again, that a thing exists.
They say that the Reds and the Blues are moving to areas in the USA where they can live separated from one another.
Last Sunday, three lanes on the German Autobahn with back-to-back traffic for 100 miles, moving at 40 m.p.h.. No trucks allowed.
Today I saw a white and bluish field of daisies and cornflowers with a red poppy here and there, swaying in the breeze.
How obvious are the deficits of our enlightened, high-priced American education. Educated cavemen of conspiracies we are.
[My students liked this prayer before class:]
Father, we thank Thee for the night,
And for the blessed morning light.
For rest and food, and loving care,
And all that makes the world so fair.
Help us to do the things we should,
To be to others, kind and good.
In all we do, in all we say,
To grow more loving every day.
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