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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”

John Lewis – Freedom Fighter, February 21, 1940–July 17, 2020

I have kept a personal journal since my thirtieth birthday. Often it reads, regardless of my chronological age when penning it, like a repetitive and embarrassing adolescent reverie about relationships and experiences that, even if I don’t ultimately burn it, I’m surely not publishing. Distinct from that journal, I’ve also penned a number of true autobiographically stories that I’ve included here as well as some entries I imagine my journal might have contained had it been written before I was age ten.

This is an important issue which demands further attention and consideration from all of us.

“I see poetry as spiritual medicine.” Mahmoud Darwish

Tales from inside the courtroom and the streets leading there…

Exactly what the concept of miscellaneous is needed for as reflected by the range of subject titles to the right.

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

When the game is afoot, I find the field of sports to be a great source of inspiration and entertainment.