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Author of Emmie of Indianapolis, a novel.
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"I`ve never taken the reader into account. The proof is that I didn`t have them. Didn`t have them for a very long time. Two thousand copies of `Pedro Paramo` were edited, thousand of which I bought to give to my friends. The other thousand took four years to sell. Then yes, years later, the editions began. But all of this is irrelevant. I have never been able to live off literature. And I`m fine with that."
Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer
1917-1986

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Plato`s The Allegory of the Cave
Socrates] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or
unenlightened: --Behold! human beings living in a underground cave, which has a mouth open
towards the light and reaching all along the cave; here they have been from their childhood, and
have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being
prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing
at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you
look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of
them, over which they show the puppets.

[Glaucon] I see.

[Socrates] And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and
statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over
the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent.

[Glaucon] You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners.

[Socrates] Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one
another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?

In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato`s major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred from teacher to student, but rather that education consists in directing student`s minds toward what is real and important and allowing them to apprehend it for themselves; his faith that the universe ultimately is good; his conviction that enlightened individuals have an obligation to the rest of society, and that a good society must be one in which the truly wise (the Philosopher-King) are the rulers.
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Keep Trying...

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Truth ...

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It`s almost February 1st, Brigid`s Day

According to tradition, Brigid was born in the year 451 AD in Faughart, just north of Dundalk in County Louth, Ireland. Because of the legendary quality of the earliest accounts of her life, there is debate among many secular scholars and Christians as to the authenticity of her biographies. Three biographies agree that her mother was Brocca, a Christian Pict slave who had been baptized by Saint Patrick. They name her father as Dubhthach, a chieftain of Leinster.

The vitae say that Dubthach`s wife forced him to sell Brigid`s mother to a druid when she became pregnant. Brigid herself was born into slavery. Legends of her early holiness include her vomiting when the druid tried to feed her, due to his impurity; a white cow with red ears appeared to sustain her instead.

As she grew older, Brigid performed miracles, including healing and feeding the poor. According to one tale, as a child, she once gave away her mother`s entire store of butter. The butter was then replenished in answer to Brigid`s prayers.
Around the age of ten, she was returned as a household servant to her father, where her habit of charity led her to donate his belongings to anyone who asked.

In two Lives, Dubthach was so annoyed with her that he took her in a chariot to the King of Leinster to sell her. While Dubthach was talking to the king, Brigid gave away his jewelled sword to a beggar to barter it for food to feed his family. The king recognized her holiness and convinced Dubthach to grant his daughter her freedom.

painting John Duncan, 1913. Saint Bride

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You need to give yourself more credit.

Yes YOU.!

Some of you, today, are doubting what you`ve done to fight this fight.
Some of you, today, are wishing you`d stepped up sooner. Pushed back harder. Fought more battles.

I`m telling you, you need to give yourself more credit.

You`re here.

You didn`t get the vaccine.

You stopped wearing the masks.

You told your friends and family what you REALLY think.

You tried to help them see things too.

You might`ve lost friends.

Some of you lost spouses.

Some of you haven`t spoken to your children in far too long.

Some of you haven`t spoken to your siblings or parents in far too long.

Not because you chose to, but because they left you.

They thought you`d lost your mind. That you supported a "racist". That you peddled conspiracy theories. That you were endangering their lives.

You`ve been kicked off platforms.

Some of you have lost your jobs or been pushed so hard you had to find new ones.

Some of you have been fined, harassed and even assaulted.

Yet you`re STILL here.

You`re still here.

You`re fighting for the truth. Your searching for the truth. You don`t care how ugly it is. No subject is off limits for you. All you want to do is know what`s true and to be left TF alone to live in your God given freedoms.

You pray. Not just for yourself, but for your enemies too.

Your heart cries out in pain because you FEEL. You still feel and you see the world suffering.

Give yourself credit.

You may not have gone to a protest. You may not have called a congressman. You may not have gone to a school board meeting. You may not have sent money to someone in need.

But you ARE still here. And you need to know that you matter, and you are still making a difference. Give yourself credit for that.

Just don`t go back to sleep. Don`t tune everything out. Don`t get the jab. Don`t wear the masks. Stand your ground in the ways you`ve ALREADY done. You`ve PROVEN you can do it. Keep doing it.

You know you`re on the side of truth and guess what? That`s God`s side. God made it clear that we must always seek what is true. Do you doubt the truth?

You know you don`t.

So don`t doubt yourself either ...

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A Mother`s Love ...

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Same old news everyday. Never ends.
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Sylvia Plath. American Poet and Writer. 1932-1963

"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."

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