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Mimi Lenox

Other Things Amanzi

by Mimi Lenox
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What would you do if had to save a cold-blooded killer’s life? What if it fell to you, on any given day, to remain impar­tial, silent, non-judgmental, pro­fes­sional … stoic? Could you sep­a­rate your feel­ings and do your job?
Fam­ily was writ­ten in the noto­ri­ously crime-ridden province of South Africa’s Mpumalanga. Bongi, the writer of the […]

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Shearyadi’s World

by JHSEsq
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The Great White Whale. The Orang­utan Cri­sis. Green­peace. StopWhaling.org. Giant Chi­nese Stur­geon. Cor­rup­tion.
The guy has pas­sion.
Shearyadi’s World is full of mag­nif­i­cent ani­mal pics and purpose-filled posts about sav­ing not just his world — but our world. Wanna talk about envi­ron­men­tal issues? Cli­mate change? Polit­i­cal ban­ter­ing about global warm­ing and the Alaska Polar Bear? It’s all here.
Today’s […]

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Sojourner’s Place

by JHSEsq
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She describes her­self as “One Chris­t­ian, African-American, Wife, Mother, Daugh­ter, Sis­ter, Pro­fes­sional, Soror­ity Woman just Sojourn­ing for the Truth and not afraid to tell it!” Her blog is thought-provoking, beau­ti­ful, and polit­i­cally afire. A con­stant flow of faith and rock-solid belief in the poten­tial of the human spirit under­scores her writ­ing. Her peo­ple, her […]

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Rubber Slippers in Italy

by JHSEsq

Nes­tled in the province of Lecco, Italy there lives a Hawai­ian girl named Rowena and her dog. Oh. And there’s hus­band too. This mag­i­cal place on the Inter­net is called Rub­ber Slip­pers in Italy Italy. Today they are tak­ing a Walk In The Woods, one of many adven­tures large and small that has become […]

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From Gaza With Love

by JHSEsq

“When one is in a hole, it is imper­a­tive to stop dig­ging. If we are to win our free­dom, surely it will not be done with one brother dig­ging the grave of another.“Dr. Mona El-Farra knows what she’s talk­ing about.
Today’s win­ning post is dated June 14, 2008 and it is called Quest For Free­dom. Don’t […]

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Home in France

by JHSEsq

“Some­times, life only gives us one chance, and if you don’t grab it, there might not be more where that came from,” writes Bar­bara in a ter­rific post called Gone in the skip of a heart­beat. I’ve been fol­low­ing this won­der­ful blog Home In France for some time, where an intel­li­gent and artic­u­late writer […]

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And As the World Turns

by JHSEsq

One phone call can change it all.
Our per­spec­tive, our sense of what is fair and just in this world, the nice warm snug­gly feel­ing when all is going well in the safe bub­ble we call life. But this post is not about life.
It is about death.And love.And a span of time given unselfishly by someone […]

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Tarheel Ramblings

by JHSEsq

The scope and sequence of this post is sim­ple.
Lee changed his mind.Then he changed his blog. Then his blog changed him. Or was it the other way around?In the course of four months, this rel­a­tively new blog­ger (although cer­tainly not a new writer or pho­tog­ra­pher) melded into a com­mu­nity of blog pros offer­ing his own […]

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Daisy the Curly Cat

by JHSEsq

I should title this review “Don’t Tell Daisy” because well.….I have a few things I’d like to share with you that Daisy shouldn’t know. First of all, I’m not a cat per­son (don’t tell Daisy). Sec­ondly, a non-human has never won this award as far as I can tell. There have been kings, cow­bells, cowgirls […]

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