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Once you decide you are an artist – and mean it – the rest falls away like the clothes of a lover. – Barker Ajax The nerve of some people. Just because he says he’s my doctor. He asked me a question I often ask myself, why do you write? Good question. That’s why…
They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They’d both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They’d both lost their way without the other. Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished. – Guillaume Musso, Que serais-je sans toi?…
What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to…
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. – Jodi Picoult Barker Ajax been called a lot of bad names by many many people, since…
Imagine you have an intelligence that can’t be accurately measured by standardized testing. Yeah, I’ll go with that. – Barker Ajax So, anyway, if you have been following the news closely, the Florida state Department of Education recently rejected 54 of 132 math textbooks submitted by publishers. The books did not comply with its Benchmarks for Excellent…
The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the due process clause of the 14th Amendment….That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned by the Constitution, but any such right must…
“Something must be done to show these barbarians that we, too, have rights.” – John Brown The Pottawatomie massacre occurred on the night of May 24–25, 1856, in the Kansas Territory. In reaction to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces on May 21, and the telegraphed news of the severe attack on May 22 on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, for speaking out against slavery…
I believe all organized religion is based on myths and is responsible for most of the horror in the world now and in the past. I think nothing will change much because of continuing, probably atavistic, superstition, ignorance, and greed. It’s frightening that human beings continue to need scapegoats in order to justify themselves. I…
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley You ever wonder how people end up the way they do? Yeah. Me,…
Just like a tree that loses branches and dead leaves in the Autumn, I will rebuild anew. I will rebuild new branches and leaves. I will rebuild and maintain only what bears me fruits. – Mitta Xinindlu When Barker Ajax reaches the end of his rope, he heads to the end of the road. Imagine you…