This will just be a short update. I’ll write much more about my Washington, D.C., adventure when I return home. OK, I think that I mentioned the close call that I had with the cops in front of the White House on Tuesday. After that fun experience, I went to the Luce Foundation Center (upstairs […]
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Today, I was in front of the White House with the Voices for Creative Nonviolence folks. A group had come from Minnesota to join us and to engage in a civil resistance action in front of the White House. The group had come well-prepared for the action. They brought decorated shoes and t-shirts. I was
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When I was in college, I was a political science major. I truly felt that I could work within the system and help to effect long-lasting change. I spent a semester here in a Washington semester program. I was a part-time intern in the office of Rep. Dan Marriott of Utah. He was a conservative
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I arrived in Washington, D.C., today after traveling by plane, bus, and train. I settled in at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker house, which will be my home for the next two weeks. At about 4:30 p.m., I hopped on the Metro and headed to the White House. As I walked to the White House
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For about a week, the weather was atrocious. It snowed nonstop and the temperature barely made it out of the single digits. Add to that a wind and walking becomes a hazardous activity, especially to fingers and noses and other extremities. As my fondness for my fingers, toes, and nose is well known, I had
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Would you believe that I cut open a grapefruit and found this lovely pattern? No? I didn’t think so. Can you tell that my journalism career has bitten the dust and that I am entertaining myself by doing this to grapefruits and then by photographing them before they’re polished off?Hee hee. At least, I’m not
