Poem, snippets and essays of my life

Category: history

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    And it’s summer  I have a white eyelet bathrobe lined in baby blue, which I wear on the lawn after supper, and I dance for my grandmother  who sits in the chaise lounge wearing dark  glasses that are blonde tortoise with green lenses. Her skin is dark: tanned from years of regret. I am knocking…

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  • Summer School

    Summer School

    So I am a sucker for an Instagram reel that is sentimental and tonight I watched one about a female pilot who climbed into a souped up amazing, powerful, beautiful Air Force plane, and all around her the men who sent her off were high-fiving her. I found myself in tears watching this. I’m not…

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  • Award

    Nobel Peace Prize The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts “to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group today “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” The organization…

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  • The Gathering Storm. By Winston…

    Winston Churchill is best known as Britain’s leader during the second world war, but he was also a painter and a prolific writer. “The Gathering Storm”, published in 1948, is the first volume of “The Second World War”, his brilliantly written history, which was among the works for which he won the Nobel prize for…

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