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Category Archives: Education
Love, Light, and Atheism
When we atheists say we’re non-believers we don’t literally mean we don’t believe in anything. We just don’t believe in deities. (It’s sometimes just a way of saying we’re atheists without the baggage.) Continue reading →
Posted in Beauty and joy, Education, Inspiration, Politics, Religion, Social Justice
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Tagged Atheism, Christmas, Holidays, life, Religion, Spirituality
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Earth Day: A Revisit
The earth is our only home. We owe it to her–and to ourselves–to keep her healthy. At some point we have to heed the warnings. We’re at the stage now where the earth would be better off without us. Continue reading →
Posted in Beauty and joy, Education, Nature, Politics, Uncategorized
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Tagged Earth Day, Environmentalism, Gaylord Nelson, Wallace Stegner
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An Education By Fits And Starts But Not Degrees
My formal “college” consists of 26 community college credits, half of them in ceramics. I took two classes in cultural anthropology, fell in love with Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, and decided anthropology was my life’s calling–until I looked through … Continue reading →
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Tagged college, community college, education, formal education, free community college, President Obama, trade school
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