Tag: society
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city sights
we keep building highways between our homes, rearranging entrances and exits. the noise of those honking machines are getting to my head. I picture cars going through the motions of ant armies, ants carrying on their back automatic people, who ask “how are you?” and move on the automatic people are blind they can’t see:…
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1,000 miles: step 26
Thirteen days and counting until national immigration reform marches. When I hear the word “immigrant,” I think about the Latino community. I wonder if this is a generational mindset. It’s likely a shared experience of these times. Wednesday, I had a student from Afghanistan at the library. During our computer session, as people often do,…
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1,000 miles: step 21
Winter is coming to an end, and all the snow memories I’ve got are of angels shedding cheese. And oh, that awful snow storm that hit the metropolitan area—which by the way, was very stingy with Falls Church. This is what I woke up to earlier this week: The earth’s climate is changing and in…