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C.S. LEWIS, MY LOVE: Christianity and fake “news” in American politics ;0D
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS/Chapter 14, Circa 1942 My dear Wormwood, The most alarming thing in your last account of the patient is that he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, I gather; not even the expectation of an endowment of ‘grace’ for life,…
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GROWING PAINS: life in Minnesota.
Sunday, July 16, 2000, Age 19 Hoorah! Have lost seven pounds since one week ago! Am on track to making ex-boyfriend’s dwell in complete misery and they will be very sad they ever let me go. Or better yet, let me walk away. Hah! So, first day at very big bank working through temp agency…
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT: social responsibility.
THE MORAL BASIS OF DEMOCRACY: Chapter 7/Circa 1940 The war-ridden poverty-stricken world of today seems to be struggling essentially with problems of economics and its ills seem to be primarily materialistic. Yet, I believe, that we do not begin to approach a solution of our problems until we acknowledge the fact that they are spiritual…
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GROWING UP: social struggles.
Wednesday, July 12, 2000, Age 19 Baahh! I was doing so well! I suppose I can’t write everyday though. Okay, so I love my JenJen and everything but ya know how you sometimes just get those middle school feelings of jealousy by no fault of your own? Hah….well yeah that’s it. Okay so I read…
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J.D. SALINGER, MY LOVE: words to live by ;0)
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, Chapter 24, Circa 1945 “I don’t want to scare you,” he said, “but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause.” He gave me a funny look. “If I write something down for you, will you read it carefully? And keep…