It’s hard to imagine a government can survive in an age of Twitter by trying to stamp out laughter and love.
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Tag Archives: freedom
in praise of posters
September 14, 2010 
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Anyone who walks down a hall of flyers and posted notices knows the community is filled with people who are doing something and you are invited. It’s an emotional connection that says a lot is going on here. And you don’t have to have permission to do stuff.
Read morein memoriam: Joel A. Metts
May 31, 2010 3 Comments
I hung a flag out on the porch yesterday, as I always do for Memorial Day and the Forth of July. It’s the flag from my grandfather’s casket. Pop, as I knew him, was a gentle old man with a drinking problem. He returned from the Pacific after World War II, where he had served […]
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of life, liberty and literature
When virtue is mocked, when truth is denied, when character is demeaned and when self is promoted, there is no freedom to anticipate. Or to celebrate.
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