Winter Solstice occurs when the earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun. It is often also referred to as Midwinter, since that is…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock I find myself wondering, as I read, what was Murdock’s solution to her loss of faith…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock Murdock muses that she writes in an effort to disentangle her voice from the grip of…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock I believe there are as many different truths as there are people to hold them, and…
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Unreliable Truth: On Memoir & Memory by Maureen Murdock Fact can exist without human intelligence but truth cannot. — Toni Morrison For a piece of…
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There was also a curious song with four female singers titled “Sending You A Little Christmas.” I say curious because it was about being far…
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As a child I adored the holiday season: the wonderful carol singing, the excitement and sharing and happiness that abounded all around us, the excited…
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One of my housemates is in a world mythology class. I was quite interested to hear this, since I love mythology, and I thought this…
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Originally written in the late ’90s regarding the reading list of a truly fascinating anthropology class. The papers are extremely light — basically just some…
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