“I Want To Be An Indian”
To the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would answer in this fashion, naming not just one but five goals for myself: “I would like to be an Indian, comedian, architect, teacher, writer.”
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Author: Roger
An Open Letter to the Republican Party
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
I pray to the heavens above that Republicans recognize this as farce and do not take any of these proposals seriously—amen!
Black Elk Speaks
“You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round . . . . “
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The Principal’s Office: Navy Yard Shooting on 9/16/13
Odd, isn’t it, how many of us boys were sent to the principals’ office at one time or another? Oh, the reasons they were many: some small, some momentary lapse of judgment. How polite we were in face of admonition, how contrite our faces, how humble in our place, and (later) how frightened in our worries lest our parents discover our transgression!
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Possible and Impossible
If one were asked the question, do you think it is true “Anything is possible?” most people would agree there are two main choices, “yes” or “no”, and most would choose “yes.” The saying has been a powerful motivator for so long now it’s become a standardized axiom we all love. Yet from the point of view of logic, it is necessarily false. It is not true than anything is possible for two main reasons . . . .
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