Author: missingperspective
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Sweet Home Alabama: The Litmus Test of America
“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey, he’s obligated to do so” – Thomas Jefferson Since the story broke about the same-sex marriage fiasco in Alabama, my mind has been kind of in a frenzy. The story infuriates me on so many levels that I see red. I mean […]
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“You say Nature, I Say Nurture” (The Monday Fits)
“Genes load the gun, environment pulls the trigger” – Dr. Scott Kahan The debate about nature versus nurture has always been intriguing to me. Are we a product of our environment, or do the genes of our parents and grandparents dictate our behaviors and decisions that we choose to make? There was a time when […]
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This One is For the Home Team: Tuskegee
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” ― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape I write often about what’s going in the larger society in our […]
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The Monday Fits: The Wannabe SuperHero Syndrome
“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.” ― Derek Landy, Death Bringer Superheroes are not real. Tragic heroes are not real. Yet, we love them. It’s as if there is a new superhero movie rolling out every month. But why do we love them? Is it because we […]
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Living For A Legacy: From Stuart to MLK/LBJ
“Choices we make about the lives we live, determine the kinds of legacy we live” – Tavis Smiley
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The Favor You Didn’t Know You Needed
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. – Thomas A. Edison So I was challenged to write a post a few months ago about a time when I received a favor for me and it made a difference. The process actually took longer […]
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The Monday Fits: First World Faux Pas All Around
As the year closes, there a number of different topics that I find bubbling up in my mind. But what I find that happens all too often, are the issues that are most important, where the passion overflows are closer to “first-world problems” than pressing matters. You know the problems from living in a wealthy, […]
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The Reciprocation of Respect or Lack of (The Monday Fits)
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky There […]
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#FivedaysinDecember #JoinMe
JOIN ME…..my last five blogging days of the year are going to be part of a series called “Five Days in December”. I started my blog this year, to share my voice, and make an impact, and not stand on the sidelines while my thoughts remained tucked away in my brain. I took a small […]
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Denying That We Have a Race Problem is Un-American (The Monday Fits)
The events of Ferguson have a lot of people doing, saying, spewing all kinds of love, hate, and fear to each other in their homes, at work, and all over social media. These actions are fueled by life experiences that shape their perspective in one way or another. However, after seeing what some people choose […]
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