Stephanie Bennett's Blog

Many years ago a powerful man in the community dangled one of these crunchy root vegetables before my eyes.
He waited for my face to light up and take on the animation that would tell him he acheived his purpose.
He really thought the carrot he dangled would move me. He was wrong.

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One of my favorite things to do is to find special places to simply "be." Do you have a "quiet place," where you can get some "good thinkin' done?"

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The tea is brewing; won't you come in a spend a moment?

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Excerpt From W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939"

"All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die."

Hello fellow bloggers.... May I ask you, "what is our response to the darkness and alienation in this present world?"

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A great literary figure and scholar named Kenneth Burke wrote the following:

"And in this staggering disproportion between man and no-man, there is
no place for purely human boasts of grandeur, or for forgetting that
men build their cultures by huddling together, nervously loquacious,
at the edge of an abyss."

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