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IT KEEPS COMING...

I was renewing the subscription at the Sun Magazine, and before closing the web page, looked at the bottom of it, and there was this staring at me: " What is to give light, must endure burning ", Victor Frankl. I'm not sure I want to...? Is there an alternative?

Season Change...autumn is here

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What a week! And, no wonder - it is Autumn, or Fall already. And it started with 'a bang'! For one, this was the week of the execution in Georgia of a very popular (no pun intended) black man, with whom I had grown close to, not in friendship-like ways, but I followed his life, news about him, I prayed for his case in front of the  justice system (the 'law'), I exchanged e-mails with his sister (sporadically), etc., etc. I have had a 3-4 inch round lapel button of his photo and a motto that circles his face which reads " Justice for Troy Davis ... Fight for Change !" That face has been staring at me from my inbox for several years. I have wanted to have it present; don't know for what reason. Maybe there's a part of me in common with Troy: in the call for justice...in the call for 'fight for change'? So no wonder when this week, in the twitter world, the hashtag "#IAmTroyDavis" filled the screens of my computer at home, at work an...