Category: Environmental Disasters
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The Climatological Blossoms on My Mother’s Pink Camellia Part 2 of 2
Please Note: Like part one of The Climatological Blossoms of My Mother’s Pink Camellia, based on reflections by African-American author Aberjhani (pronounced: Ah Bear Zhah Knee), repost of this second episode is presented on Mother’s Day 2022 in tribute to mothers and children escaping war zones and climate-ravaged regions around…
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Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives (essay with poem)
“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence…”~Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture in Literature (This segment of Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives is…
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Creative Thinkers International and 21st Century Notions of Community – Bright Skylark Literary Productions
Syrian children behind a barbed wire fence at the Ceylanpinar refugee camp in the Sanliurfa province of Turkey. (Photo by Reuters) At the heart of Creative Thinkers International’s operational philosophy has always been a core belief in the ability of positive creativity to help inspire nonviolent conflict resolution. This is…
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Posted Perspectives on America’s 2012 Presidential Election (part 1 of 2) – Special Report by Aberjhani
President Barack Obama and NJ Gov. Chris Christie survey damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and comfort survivors. (Reuters photo by Larry Downing) Was it a matter of political irony or plain old-fashioned racism…