While trying to write a simple "hey, brother" response to @SHEASHANNARA's entry here, I spun out into much more of a discourse on my own spirituality than I meant to. I felt that posting something so much about myself there would have been against the spirit of his own piece, so decided to move my own ramblings to my own space where...
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I'm taking a bit of a break from SG. Don't know for how long, but I expect I'll probably be back at some point. Notwithstanding a few exceptional artists, the sets have taken on a very samey quality, with less and less of the experimentation of the past. The proliferation of silicone and makeup so thick it might as well be a different face are
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My first ever blog post here was inspired when a family member passed along this article. It's a fine article with great graphics, but it's also worth noting how many of these pandemics changed history, and what that might mean for us now.
These days the impact of smallpox on Native Americans is pretty widely understood, and because of proximity we're aware of some of...
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