by Missy Marilyn

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Faith Family The Politician

Who Pulled the Trigger: An American Problem and A Mom’s prayer.

This must be one of the scariest things that has passed through my hands, but it can’t sit in my heart. I know I’m going to piss off just about everyone I know, and everyone can find something here to be offended about.  But we can’t play the “offended” card while children are dying.  So, …

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Today I Wear Pearls

Today, I wear pearls. I wear pearls because they signify something beautiful that came from an injury. I wear pearls because they indicate class and elegance. I wear pearls for all brown girls who have ever been made to feel like they don’t belong. I wear pearls for all the women in a man’s world, …

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Capitol Crime

My heart weighs heavy with the events of today. It’s like I could hear a rip in the fabric of our very flag today. I seem to recall some sucky Gerard Butler movies that started with some far off mob taking the White House or some insane thing. And I always thought, “No way. So …

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USA 2020.

I’ll confess. I have lived most of my life fairly ignorant of politics. Politics have always seemed to me a necessary evil, where people go to sell their souls for votes, and they’ll lie to you quicker than an old car salesman. I’ve always been concerned more on the inner person, how a person feels/ …

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Passages Against Racism

I’ve spent a lifetime being quiet. But I feel like I can’t do that any longer. Because there’s a time to be quiet, and there’s a time to get mad. I have a lifetime full of friends that are suffering right now, who are extremely uncomfortable at all of this, and I’m going to say …

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Something to Remember this November…

Here’s what we have to remember, folks.  No matter what happens in November, WE are still going to have to find a way to coexist.  We, who share offices and classrooms and hallways. That’s why I don’t get all of this blame-game finger-pointing and scapegoating.  All of this separation, and hate, and bald-faced ugliness.  When …

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Empathy

The key to life, empathy. It answers all the questions on our minds right now.  Do I really need to wear a mask?  Empathy.  Why are they taking down all the statues?  Empathy.  What if racism still exists?  Empathy.  How do we get through this divide?  … Empathy.

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