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An Argument Against Assault Rifles

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Image from: https://www.pngmart.com/image/492211#google_vignette I grew up with guns in the house. I ate pheasant, rabbit and venison regularly, all by the hand of my gun-toting father. My brothers learned to hunt. I have enjoyed venison from their hunting as well.  I held a rifle in my own hand at one time.  Actually, that one time […]

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When bad things happen to good people

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Mary Statue. in the aftermath of Annunciation shooting, August 26, 2025. I want to say so much, but I cannot speak. I cannot look away from the images I don’t want to see. I listen to all the news media and discussion and with ears that are too full to hear. So, I walk along

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Thinking of Spring

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author’s photo and garden April in Minnesota I see them everywhere, slicing the soft earth, slipping their speared tips skyward – stretching their spikes of green and purple. They emerge in regiments, in battalions, fighting for space with other newly forming species. The war is waged through rain and sun, through day and night; with

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