Year: 2014
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Get Open And Wait
A poem Get open and wait— And suddenly the world becomes clear. Like a sunbeam across a prairie The atmosphere cracks and shouts a violent hello. A burning yellow rainbow— light itself enlightened. We seek illumination in our days; we crowd them still with noble desires of seeing the sunset once again. Just one more…
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iLibrary: Resistance Is Futile
If a library doesn’t have books, does it cease to be a library? The coming of BiblioTech, a new Apple Store computer lab bookless library in San Antonio, the first in the nation, begs the question. It has also brought with it rhetorical musings on whether the future of libraries is already here, and whether the…
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Seeing In Black And White
Rod Dreher recently wrote about Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s comments about, essentially, how happy he believed Black Southerners were in the 1950s before the civil rights movement. To Dreher, Robertson’s comments demonstrate the power of narrative, of the stories we tell ourselves and how they affect how we see the “truth” of our own situations, even when…