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The Phone Call
Telling our personal stories is often about reprisal or vengence or punishment. But what if the villains cannot be touched? Then reshape the story! Make the story about lessons learned and hopes revived. Make the story about the emotional impact and survival and empathy.
Sunday lesson: Live the life you want others to remember.
Every woman must think of herself as a teacher. Even without a classroom, a woman teaches the young women and girls in her every expression and action.
Achievements Give Realty to Feckle Hope
Those of us who are aging need to remind ourselves that we've endured this bull ride before, in many ways, at varying degrees of pain or loss. Our minds must remain resilient, must be challenged and ever-learning, and we must be able to withstand any suffering with the belief in our purpose.
Show that Their Power Over Us is Weak
Jesus entered the Temple to show that the Pharisees are profiteers, weak, corrupt, and untrustworthy. One person is all it takes to show the world that something good cannot be built on a foundation of corruption and criminality.
Destroy Their Power Over Us
The energy we need to stand up to bullies, to the cruel MAGA agenda, to fearful situations, and to the dark unknowns will come from the courage we have used before now and the courage we must share with each other. We cannot destroy the evil; we can and we must destroy its powers over us.
Remembering a courageous woman
This is a tribute to my younger sister. She was strong, beautiful, empathetic, generous and good. I miss her.
Sunday Lesson: courage and persistence
Henrietta Lacks gave far more to the story of humanity and women's strengths than her cancer cells gave to science. Let us think about her love and trust, her courage and persistence.
They wish for 1928; they'll destroy everything else to take the USA back to that era.
They (America's white evangelicals and fundamentalists) are who they are because Power and Greed never changed their core beliefs in White Male Supremacy. Power and Greed merely sweetened the political deals they made within the Republican party.
Jesus' teachings; the 'inconvenient' truths that white evangelicals reject.
Today's Sunday School Lesson: The old religious studies courses we took for the easy A are no longer valid. America's Christianity is a fractured, weak, sectarian, divided, and splintered religion that survives only to support the far right and the new American fascism. Some sects like Methodists are defying the trend...but it is too little, too late.
Dear Shary who unfriended me...
Cults thrive when their followers run from challenges. Today's Republican party is a cult, a criminal enterprise that benefits an elite few. Women must accept the challenge of resistance.
Who is a Man?
Instead of trying to describe what A Real Man should be, I will premise my argument about gender roles on this: Every man and woman should exhibit the very best of human traits. Empathy, Humility, Kindness, Social Responsibility... If we raise the children in our families and communities to fully appreciate the strength in these traits, we will all live in a better world.
On Having a Bit of Fun
One way for a retired older person to believe again in the energies, good will, intelligences, and empathy of young people is to do background on a local film.
I'm Doing This for You
Older brother must leave and report to Camp Hale Colorado. How does he say goodbye to his twelve year old brother?
Read MoreAbout Nancy Jean
I've lived in New Mexico, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Missouri, and Alaska -- not in this order. Albuquerque is my current home. I also enjoy, since my retirement from teaching in the classroom, traveling to visit new places, meeting new people, learning new ideas and broadening my experiences. My travels to places like Puerto Rico, Austria, and other places in the United States inspire creative ideas.
My new books, Little Texas and Pease River Revival are now available as ebooks in most online bookstores.
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