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How to Move Forward – A perspective and 14 proposals relative to creating our nation's future
Mark H. W. Hiebert, June 19, 2020

What does it mean to move forward? How do we find a path to a future that holds true to the ideals toward which our nation imperfectly stives and from which we so often fail to reach? How do we reconcile ugly truths with glittering hopes? [read more...]

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On Juneteeth
Mark H. W. Hiebert, June 19, 2020

Here we are, now in the now, as we've always been (at least as best as we have thought that we might be able to think we are), on a day when what was once "now" in Texas had been "two and a half years ago" not too many miles east of the present seat of my delimited knowledge. [read more...]

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We Could Change – But that would be difficult and inconvenient
Mark H. W. Hiebert, May 12, 2020

This isn’t an essay about music, but it does have a soundtrack. Two songs are playing in my head concurrently, Brave Combo’s “Do Something Different” and Big Black’s cover of Cheap Trick’s “He’s a Whore.” One commands, “Never ever ever do what's proper again / Understand everyone crystal-clear” while the other is an admission, “I'll do anything for money / (He's a whore) With the things you like to eat... .” [read more...]

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Answering a Question – Rumnination relative to all the -isms that afflict us and that get woven deep into psychic make-up
Mark H. W. Hiebert, June 22, 2018

This personal narrative was written in response to the outcome of comedian Andre Rick's routine as delivered at Sancho's back in 2018 and how I feel like I failed when I answered a question that should have been answered better. [read more...]