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Democratic Rep. Ed DeLaney of Indianapolis said: “So what do we want our kids to do? We don’t want them to be woke. We want them to be asleep. That’s what this bill proposes — put our kids, and their minds, and their futures to sleep.”

Trigger warning. Read if you can. Most of us know this suffering or have loved ones or friends hurting like this. 💗

Exquisite rendition of "Tennessee Waltz" by Michael Stephenson on Amazon Music. music.amazon.com/albums/B08WTPZ…

Learning to Write Memoir brevity.wordpress.com/2022/01/31/lea…

“I never meant to find myself in such a cold place, my hair thinning against winter.” poets.org/poem/february-2

Here's a piece I wrote about how avoidance held my writing back. Thank you: WOW! WomenOnWriting #Memoir #WritingCommunity Read here: t.ly/k64Y

" In scene writing, you need to show, and occasionally tell, but unless you’ve decided something, you’ve just got a well written situation, and that’s not good enough." Wise words from Lisa Cooper Ellison brevity.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/how…

From "My Work is Loving the World" by Mary Oliver:

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“I know people are writing the corners and edges of their lives instead of writing the center because the center is too hard, because the center feels lost.”

One fight Fannie Lou Hamer helped lead was justice for the 1971 murder of 18-year old Joetha Collier, a black woman who had just graduated high school. You can read more about Collier's story in Dr. Keisha N. Blain latest article here: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Mail person just delivered this just-released YA LIT! #sonorareyes

What Oliver didn’t say is that her recommendations form their own container of grief, a sort of shifting, tea-leaves reading performed while the cup is hot and overflowing.

Dan McLaughlin Actually, the 14th Amendment is for all the people white men excluded from the document when they wrote it. Indeed, the story of America is largely everybody else trying to get the same rights white men have tried to give exclusively to themselves since 1787.

No one should be denied access to education or a job simply because they don’t have a car. As mayor, I will deliver free, reliable, fast and safe transportation that connects every neighborhood in L.A. Read my plan here: karenbass.com/policies/trans…

Congratulations to the nine recipients of the Whiting Foundation’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction Grant, announced today! Read more about the winners of the $40K prize here: at.pw.org/Whiting22

"Astute readers know that four minutes is plenty of time to get to know someone." Kathleen Radigan on looking for love among the shelves. lithub.com/overhead-at-li…

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