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Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You

Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You by Melissa S. Green | crossposted at Bent Alaska does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their … Continue reading

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I won’t abandon my integrity, even if you abandon me

I feel like talking about the Book of Job again, because (1) I’ll be giving a talk that starts out with my Job poem “Sermon” next month & (2) I’m reading a lot of old emails about a particularly Job-relevant period of my life.

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Harm at the center

Self-hatred — including, for many of us, internalized homophobia and transphobia — is the harm at the very center of us. Love others as you love yourself, but first: love yourself. Let no one convince you to do otherwise.

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Integrity, violation, healing

This excerpt from Rachel Meikäläinen’s Whole Numbers delves into the meaning of the word integrity.

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Building Consensus

How editing Wikipedia & a fictional Martian constitutional convention influenced the Consensus government in my novel(s)-to-be. Yep, & consensus would be a better way to run our own world too, yep.

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Buddha in the coffee shop

My Side Street Saturday included an encounter with a handcarved Vietnamese Buddha of white-grey marble, which its owner hopes to sell as a fundraiser for Veterans for Peace. A little about Job, integrity, cold, & low atmospheric pressure, too.

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Lessons from Froomkin

I’ve been catching up somewhat on stuff in the wider political world outside the Anchorage equal rights ordinance battle. Having been so focused on AO 2009-64, it wasn’t until early this morning that I learned Dan Froomkin had been fired … Continue reading

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Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You (poem)

Does Anyone Beat Your Heart for You does anyone beat your heart for you — oh yes I know there are some who will quicken it or slow it at their leaving — but when you are alone at night … Continue reading

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