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Sexual violence in India and Pakistan • Bizarre Iranian propaganda
Continue reading * Sexual violence in India and Pakistan; and other news
Category Archives: Clippings
* Treatment resistant
A ‘village’ of mentors keeps Trayvon Martin’s friend, Rachel Jeantel, on track
Tom Joyner: “Did it work? The short answer to that is no.”
At first glance, the story of Jeantel and her “village” seemed to me to epitomize the principle I set forth in “Don’t come uninvited.”
* Student Stripper Makes $180K a Year and Will Graduate Debt-Free
Bookmarks:
Student Stripper Makes $180K a Year & Will Graduate Debt-Free • Talking about race is no black-and-white matter • This Hummus Has Standards, OK? • Mass murder, misogyny and movies • Even the NRA thinks taking assault rifles to Chipotle is dumb • McDonald’s update •
Continue reading * Student Stripper Makes $180K a Year and Will Graduate Debt-Free
* Anacostia High valedictorian going from a homeless shelter to Georgetown
Here’s a success story.
Just Asking: Anacostia High valedictorian on going from a homeless shelter to Georgetown
Rashema Melson, 18, will graduate on June 11. She lives with her mother and two brothers in one room at the D.C. General homeless shelter. [William Tell’s note: This is the same facility that housed Relisha Rudd.] Her father was killed when she was 7 months old.
What will you talk about at graduation?
I’m going to talk about how Anacostia pushed me. People feel like Anacostia is this place where all the ghetto kids go and that Anacostia is really easy, and I’m like, “No.” My speech is going to be dedicated to all the teachers who pushed me and who I could talk to in a time of need and who helped me when I didn’t have anything like food or clothing.
Your mom must be excited about your being valedictorian.
My mom knows how happy I am to be valedictorian, but sometimes she tells me to stop stressing and to relax and just live life. I’ve been stressing for years about grades. It has to be A, A, A, A, A. I can’t accept a B. I’m going to be the first one to graduate and get out of college and get a real job, something that can really help us.
Dawn Loggins presents a similar success story:
Harvard-bound homeless grad ‘overwhelmed’ by ovation
Dawn Loggins, Student, Heading To Harvard After Being Homeless, Abandoned By Parents
Girl, 18, who grew up homeless is accepted into Harvard
(Reblogged 04/04/19.)
* Myanmar’s Buddhist bigots, etc.
* This Ancient Philosophy Is What We Desperately Need In Our Modern Lives
Another link from Brian Williard:
This Ancient Philosophy Is What We Desperately Need In Our Modern Lives
Growing up, all the word “Stoic” meant to me was keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of adversity.
Not until 1989, when I was taking the Synoptics course at St. Mary’s Seminary, did I learn — from Sean Freyne’s The World of the New Testament, which I highly recommend for many reasons — that there is a great deal more to it, including much to like.
Stoicism is a life of ordered joy.
As you read this article, please note the many similarities between the approach to life described there, and the things I have said here about presence.
Carolyn Gregoire also wrote the first article I mentioned about emotional intelligence, “How emotionally intelligent are you?”
And yet another link from Brian Williard:
Google’s ‘Jolly Good Fellow’ On The Power Of Emotional Intelligence
Looks like links to Carolyn Gregoire are becoming pretty common on this blog.
Don’t scoff at the headline. From the gentleman in question here, Chade-Meng Tan, comes another ringing endorsement of meditation and presence as I have discussed them. I note that the first exercise described in the article is tantamount to what I call prayer, and practically the same as I proposed in “You don’t need an invitation to love people.“
(Reblogged 2019-03-14.)
* This guy is a career criminal, and other news
(Originally published 06/15/13 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 03/07/19.)
3 Years Is Just Desserts for Man Who Refused to Pay Dinner Bill
No comment. Read the story.
Fatherhood programs teach men to be dads
This is a good thing. Many young men are eager to step up to the plate and, in these circumstances, overcome the disadvantages of their own background.
Give ’em a chance.
With exposure to babies, rodent dads’ brains, like moms’, become wired for nurture
We mammals aren’t reptiles.
* The Ukraine crisis: A chronological listing of news reports
A previous similar collection of links to news items appeared here.
2014-05-19
Putin says Russian troops on Ukrainian border are coming home
They said this before, and the U.S. and NATO found no evidence that it had happened. We’ll see. But it does sound as if Russia is distancing itself — literally — from the separatists.
Continue reading * The Ukraine crisis: A chronological listing of news reports
* Marty Cobb murder, etc.
* I’m so jealous!
(Originally published 06/11/13 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 01/31/19.)
Delilah: Radio Host Talks About Why Her Show Is so Successful
I’ve never heard of this woman before. She and I appear to be on the same wavelength.
If only that were more than a pun!
Update, 2014-06-13:
A follower has advised that the link seems to point to an interview with Michelle Kwan.
The restrictions on videos on web pages here at the library are such I normally ignore them, and count on people just reading the text. For the video interview with Delilah one wants to click on this image:
The Homeless Blogger 