Hear themhaiku. An unrhymed Japanese lyric poem having a fixed 3-line, 17-syllable form [5-syllables in lines one and three, 7-syllables in line two.] — Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary.
As a small poetic
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Looking out: If children could vote"First World privilege and Third World deprivation and rage are struggling to coexist not only in our nation's capital but all over an America that has the capacity but not the
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Too easy"It was fun meeting other people, seeing what they're like ... they're really just like us." — Adrian Proby When left to their own devices, we can usually depend upon children to cut through those
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Looking out: Change the world"We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation
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Looking out: Prisoners pay attention"He does not wish to have it known that he is a liar, therefore he conceals himself so that he can better accomplish his design and save his own character." — Lemuel B. Haynes
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Looking out: Racism and fascism: the wallMany readers of this column will know that from time to time I share this space with readers who have written to me citing their personal views and/or experiences that relate
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Forgiveness, today!'What will it take for all of us to transcend ancient angers, hurts and assumptions? — Donna Britt in the Washington Post. No-one in the USA knows more about how slow black people are to
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Pocket change: an interviewWould you mind telling me how long you were homeless before you came to prison? Altogether, about five months. Did you work before you fell on hard times, and if so, what did you
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Learning, early on"How does a doctor or a health care worker teach a mother that her children must always wash their hands after playing with the family kitten when [their] tin house is not connected to water? —
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Sarcasm anyone?"The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for 30 years." — Woodrow Wilson America's new speaker of the House of Representatives is also a history professor who
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A word's history"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content ... according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." —
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Dirty deeds, words and permissive silence"I have a very dear friend who is Burmese. She and her family have been here since she was two years old ... Paul and I were horrified when she told us ... that almost every