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Archive for July, 2007

driven to spend

I’ve been thinking about how strong the impulse tendency has been in my life and tracing the roots of it. Looking back, I realized that a large part of my impatience stemmed from childhood. (What a surprise.)
I remember reading The House On Mango Street. The book is told from the point of view of Esperanza, [...]

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say goodbye to mucus

“How does the body adjust to cooked food? The body creates mucus and uses this mucus as a filter. All the surfaces of the digestive tract that are designed to absorb the nutrients from food become covered with mucus film that protects blood from toxins. The mucus film begins at the tongue and continues all [...]

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I don’t know about others, but I always do a mental cringe when a white person starts talking to me about having black friends, or fighting for civil rights, or whatever they think is necessary to get you to give them a pass for being white.
The problem is that you don’t have a pass to [...]

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I love it when the world makes sense. So I was writing this out, and writing is like taking inventory sometimes, and it all came together.
First, we’re going to have to back up about a year, when I first started hanging out at this place. About a week or two of hanging out with the [...]

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