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birth day memories
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Today I celebrate two births: my elder son’s and my mother’s. Bittersweet, remembering how happy Mother was when Nathan was born on her birthday (the REAL Memorial Day, you know!). Family. What really matters. More than almost anything, to those in mine. Of course, we define that wider than blood: the dear friend whom I…
“Teachers touch eternity”
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Britton Gildersleeve
Today for breakfast, I had a large helping of hope. Given the political climate in Oklahoma these days, I needed it. I had the pleasure of listening to the keynote address for the 2014 John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation’s Symposium, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. When I was in Birmingham last year, attending the National Humanities…
swords into plowshares, gas bombs into gardens
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Britton Gildersleeve
This is total Buddhism, folks. Despite the hijab covering her head, and her Palestinian djellabah, this Muslim woman is practicing the most Buddhist of actions: living in the moment, making it into peace and beauty. She has taken tear gas canisters, thrown over several years in clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians, and converted them…
#yesallwomen
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Britton Gildersleeve
If you haven’t read the Twitter site #yesallwomen, eat breakfast first. I didn’t, and won’t be able to eat for a while. Because it’s true, America: ALL women. N.B.: do men suffer violence? Of course. But today is not the time I’m going there. Today, let’s talk (again & again, until we GET IT) about…
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