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essays, poems, and remarks – a little lost but with a purpose

Tag: justice

May 31, 2020June 1, 2020

Is America Headed Toward Civil War?

by p.w.eubanks 1 Comment on Is America Headed Toward Civil War?

Societies–because they’re made up of people–function a lot like people do as individuals. Just as you or I might bottle up our anger and then one day explode, so can a society bottle up its collective anger and then explode all at once. On an individual level, as well as a societal one, we can […]

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February 11, 2020February 12, 2020

Trump Will Not Leave Office Alive

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That is to say, he does not intend to ever have to step down or stop serving as President of the United States. And as outlandish a statement that may seem to those of us who still want to believe in and hope that our sacred norms and traditions remain sacred, the writing is already […]

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October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

In the Event of My Violent Death

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This is an admittedly sobering and macabre piece for which I am providing a trigger warning of sorts given the discussion of violence and death herein. Though it’s personal on some level, I don’t really see this as something I am writing about me but rather something I am writing about my hopes for our […]

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August 29, 2019October 15, 2019

In the Juggle Between Life & Death

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I wonder if people enmeshed in palliative care become desensitized to death the way those of us who work in human rights do after we’ve seen so many awful things humans tend to do to one another. Our fights for justice, I think, are sometimes one step removed from the human face of it, because […]

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April 28, 2015July 7, 2018

From the Wisdom of Solomon to Baltimore

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There was a risky wager made when Lincoln gave the South a chance to be reconciled to the North without greater punishment than the loss both sides had so deeply suffered already, a wager that hinged on the hope that the “better angels of our nature” would prevail. The understandable hope was that time would […]

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