Tag: suffering
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Highest Recommendation
I heard about the new film about Ben Franklin and preacher George Whitefield, and I was excited. It looked like a rousing drama, and then I noticed it was directed by a past colleague from my days in the theater. I certainly never rose to this degree of success or near it as he has,…
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Getting Back Up
A Manual For Men (but the ladies can benefit too!) I was doing well for several months but then was judgmental and stumbled. I also overdid something that upset the apple-cart, and in the end, I should have found a better way to cope. I was angry, frustrated and depressed, so I fell off the…
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A Raisin in the Sun
Frustrated of late, I thought of Lorraine Hansberry’s play and then of Langston Hughes poem, Harlem: Harlem BY LANGSTON HUGHES What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like…
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