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    Helen Keller, Test of a Democracy

    The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given…… Read more “Helen Keller, Test of a Democracy”

    February 8, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Soul Searching

    Philosophical soul searching is never ending, but I suppose happiness, despair, and evil are very good places to start. > Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death //Pivotal definitions in…… Read more “Soul Searching”

    February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Thank You, Dr. Seuss

    Thank you, Dr. Seuss for speaking for the Truffula trees for the brown-bar-ba-loots, the swomee-swans, and the humming- fish — and all those whose blood in some…… Read more “Thank You, Dr. Seuss”

    August 4, 2020December 29, 2020 by Kate Gough

    Flow, Earth

    We haven’t room to simply let down our hair and full-Being flow anymore (. . .  did we ever? We try at clubs, through music laughter and…… Read more “Flow, Earth”

    March 5, 2020January 30, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Connection and Peace.

    We come with no knowledge to this place and share nothing with each other of the essential key that grows inside us like a living being, limned…… Read more “Connection and Peace.”

    January 31, 2020January 30, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Capital

    you reach out a hand to pull sky down, stars, yes the heavens themselvesare but bread to you, so you break it,break it all upon the ground,…… Read more “Capital”

    May 11, 2019January 30, 2021 by Kate Gough

    Pores

    The world gets into our poresand writes on us lines with the clay ofearth, warmth of sunbite of wind caress ; sorrow & joy clog our faceswith…… Read more “Pores”

    September 5, 2017February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

    The Danger of a Single Story

    This is fanTAStic! Filmed July 2009 at TEDGlobal 2009 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

    June 28, 2015February 8, 2021 by Kate Gough

    theMechanics.Of:ceratlone —

    (Or Tolerance, in the common tongue) No one can be commended any longer for instilling values in others – least of all the young and impressionable. We…… Read more “theMechanics.Of:ceratlone —”

    February 3, 2012February 3, 2021 by Kate Gough

    “let them eat cake”

    eat cake and live, brother; your hands are but a sky of holes. c. Mary Kathryn Gough, april 27 2004

    January 11, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Earth

    a dusky-green hilltop at midnight,on my back in prickly grass, gasping forair, and wiping the sparkling sea out of my eyesi feel the evergreenssparsely gathered here by…… Read more “Earth”

    October 31, 2011February 1, 2021 by Kate Gough

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    Idiolalia ~
    n. (id-ee-oh-LAY-lee-uh) – use of a private or invented language.

    Ultracrepidarian ~
    n. (ull-trah-crepp-ih-DARE-ee-un) – an ignorant or presumptuous critic; one who gives opinions beyond his knowledge.

    (L. phrase ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole,” reply of Greek painter Apelles to a cobbler.)

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