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Massive slate gray jagged masses of granite jut out of the ground like giant walls keeping watch around a fortified city. Long and thin strips of waterfalls cascade over their edges like someone pouring a steady stream of salt grains out of the box. Enormous Sequoias tower overhead making one feel like a small child. This is Yosemite. This is the Sierra Nevada. This is the … [Read more...] about Students find wonder in Yosemite wilderness

Like any issue contorted into a simplistic election-year dispute engagement with Iran has become a partisan joke. Democrats seize John McCain's wisecracking parody of the Beach Boys classic "Barbara Ann" to suggest that warmongering Republicans have no answer beyond "bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran." Republicans caricaturize Obama's policy as naively throwing away all bargaining chips … [Read more...] about Iran policies help shape election

As Americans our idea of "blessing" is completely distorted. We view poverty as something to be eradicated and when we think of evangelizing those "less fortunate" than ourselves it is in terms of ultimately bringing them "up" to our level of economic status. God provides for those who help themselves doesn't he? Wrong.This Westernized watered-down brand of Christianity we've … [Read more...] about Count your blessings

I often assert that I am a child of the wrong generation. The lifestyle of the roaring '20s as narrated through my favorite book "The Great Gatsby in conjunction with the flapper era's spark of the feminist movement, allures me to the nostalgia of the early decades of the 20th century. And, perhaps most evocative of the period, at least particular to my own personal interests, … [Read more...] about Political media strain intensifies

All Hallow's Eve otherwise known as Halloween has been celebrated practiced and enjoyed by the undead for more than 2000 years. The holiday originates from Ireland as a festival called "Samhain named after the country's Lord of the Dead. The Irish believed that on Oct. 31, the boundary between the living and deceased dissolved and the dead became dangerous. Today, though not … [Read more...] about Halloween Memories