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Bird’s Eye Views
Category Archives: Youth
Dignity
Dignity is a virtue that shows externally and felt internally. It’s not pomposity nor a façade. We recognize a person with dignity right away. One of the most dignified persons I’ve ever had the privilege to meet was my former … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplation, Controversy, cultural highlights, Friendship, History, Hometown, Meanderings, Politics, religion, Youth
Tagged dignity, Dignity USA, LGBT community, respect, self-respect
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The Perfect Life
The question came out of the blue from Jorge during a quiet spell last week. “I’m not asking this as a mere conversation starter: If you could choose the perfect life, would you choose the life you have now?” That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplation, Friendship, Meanderings, religion, Youth
Tagged dialogue, perfection, Utopian life
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Pretending
Do you remember the characters you imagined yourself to be during childhood playtimes? Did any of those pretended characters become a part of your adulthood? Sometimes I was the cowboy and sometimes the Indian in the clichéd game of Cowboys and … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplation, Controversy, Health, Meanderings, religion, Youth
Tagged dishonesty, honesty, make believe, pretense
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On Friendship Day
Some of our holidays commemorate controversial events or people, that’s just the way things are. There are at least a few unofficial holidays that I believe should be official and hold a much more prominent place on our calendars. Foremost … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, Friendship, Meanderings, Youth
Tagged best friends, friends, friendship
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Yippie! It’s Summer
The calendar says that it’s Summer today. It’s the time when people expect life to be at its peak. There are the swimming pools, the smell of fresh cut lawns, and the luxury of barbecued food for dinner. For most … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, History, Hometown, Meanderings, Youth
Tagged dust bowl, Great Depression, Lincoln Nebraska, Nebraska, nostalgia, South Dakota, Summer, vacation trips
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Memories of the AIDS Epidemic
Sometimes on weekends, I get a nostalgic urge and pull out one of my photo albums. The kind of albums that are actual cardboard and paper with plastic sheaths to protect actual paper and emulsion photographs. Yesterday, the photos from … Continue reading
Making
I contend that it’s not the “movers and shakers” that forge history, it’s the “movers and makers” that really do so. When we think of American History, we had people like Frederick Douglass a mover and Alexander Graham Bell a … Continue reading
Posted in cultural highlights, History, Science, Youth
Tagged construction, invention, making
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