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Progress on Cleaning my study

By ~LS~ On June 10, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Goals

I know the whole world eagerly anticipates my detailed description of my garbage, so I will appease your curiosity.

Ten things I found today in my file cabinets (some of which were trashed and some kept):

1. My very first D&D character. It was actually AD&D, generated some 15 years ago.

2. Papers from my undergraduate years at UT – Austin.

3. Reading packets from my undergraduate years at UT-Austin.

4. Pictures of the first time I went to Disney with Willow, Steve, and Teresa.

5. Hershey’s leash (my very first dog “inside” dog; he rescued me from my insanity; I love him and still miss him).

6. My “relapse plan” from treatment when I first got sober in 1988.

7. A cheap, broken computer mouse from who knows when. Nor do I know why it was in my filing cabinet.

8. More transparencies.

9. A paper written by [...]

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Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Dangerous Negro

By ~LS~ On June 9, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Obama, Politics, Race, YWCA

Today in the Huffington Post there’s an article saying that Rupert Murdoch called Obama “dangerous”:

“I think Barack Obama would describe himself as a pragmatic leftist but he’s not an extremist,” Murdoch said. “I think he sees himself as a president for change and that involves bigger government. He’s made no secret of that. I think that’s dangerous.”

This statement reminded me of something I read in the YWCA Dialogue on Race reading packet. I first heard this phrase of “dangerous negro” in an article called “Struggle and Transformation: The Challenge of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Vincent Harding, written in the mid-80s. Vincent Harding is a Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, he was an adviser to SNCC, and he was a speechwriter for King. In his article, Harding reminds us that the FBI called King [...]

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Some things I threw out today

By ~LS~ On June 9, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Goals

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The Second Hand Clothing Industry

By ~LS~ On June 8, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Capitalism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Goals, Politics

Cleaning

I’m making good progress on my 40 days/40 steps program for cleaning up my office. For a while, I was on a roll and so I extended the program to include my bedroom and the rest of the house. In actuality, then, it is more than 40 days and 40 steps. But that’s what I’m calling it and I’m sticking to it. Today I cleaned out several drawers (which allows me to cross off several steps on the list). I found five pairs of Christmas socks, which I couldn’t wear over Christmas since they disappeared. I was excited.

Recycling

During last week’s cleaning I produced two garbage bags full of paper. Old student papers. Books. That sort of thing. Since I felt guilty just tossing these papers into the trash, I decided to put them in the recycle bin. I figured that the recycle truck hasn’t yet returned our [...]

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Updating Voxygen Status

By ~LS~ On June 8, 2009 · 1 Comment · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Voxygen

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Threes

By ~LS~ On June 6, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Gratitudes, Threes

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