Monthly Archives: March 2011

About the Bus

Posted on March 29, 2011 by

    When the history books are written in the future somebody will have to say there lived a race of people, a black people, fleecy locks and black complexion, a people who had moral courage to stand up for … Continue reading →

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Civil Rights Tour, Part 2

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

Listening to Ray Charles and Dr. John this morning as I worked out on the cross-trainer, I found myself eager to get back to writing more about our trip. The first afternoon with the group I was not really with … Continue reading →

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Civil Rights Tour, Part 1

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

I’m home after a one of the most stimulating trips I’ve ever been on, happy to sleep in my own bed, doing some regular exercise and slowly processing all that I learned over the last week in the deep south. … Continue reading →

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Spring Fever

Posted on March 2, 2011 by

Spring seems to be upon us here in Virginia.  Daffodils, Winter Jasmine and Witch Hazel are splashing the still brown land with yellow.  Next month forsythia will follow. I wrote the following poem remembering what spring, particularly March, was like … Continue reading →

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