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Community Politics War and Peace

Values

Given the firehose of outrages spewing from Washington, I feel I should take to the streets in protest, but I wouldn’t know what to write on my cardboard sign.

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Closet of Anxieties Politics War and Peace

American Expansion

I thought that by focusing on small, joyful things, I might minimize the horror building in my chest.

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Community Politics

My Favorite President

A commemorative plate, my first vote, my mother at Jimmy Carter’s inaugural, Bob’s undergrad, and carrying the trash.

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Family Politics

Inaurgural Traveler by Janice Illo

My mother’s article with her impressions of Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 1977.

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Closet of Anxieties Environment Garden Politics

Summer Hypnosis

How I found myself swaddled in a cocoon of global warming