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Naseem Rakha
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Nov 18, 2022

Beyond black and white

On seeing beyond history Naseem Rakha I am in Germany for the first time in my life. This is the place my mother’s parents were from. They immigrated in the 1920’s. They were tailors, and lived for a time above their shop, The House of Fine Slacks, in Chicago. I…

History

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Beyond black and white
Beyond black and white
History

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Jul 29, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court out of touch with most Americans

I woke up the morning of July 4th feeling cynical about “Independence Day” after the recent slew of Supreme Court decisions that essentially eviscerated long-standing constitutional rights and protections considered core to our democracy. With Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newly anointed conservative supermajority stripped women of the constitutional…

Supreme Court

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U.S. Supreme Court out of touch with most Americans
U.S. Supreme Court out of touch with most Americans
Supreme Court

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Jul 29, 2022

Jan. 6 committee reveals Trump’s Orwellian attempt to win the election

Anyone who’s read George Orwell’s “1984,” the dystopian novel about life under an authoritarian regime, knows that to survive, one had to accept whatever Big Brother said no matter how big the lie. Proof you’d come to fully embrace the all-controlling Party was to believe without question that two plus…

January 6 2021

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Jan. 6 committee reveals Trump’s Orwellian attempt to win the election
Jan. 6 committee reveals Trump’s Orwellian attempt to win the election
January 6 2021

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Oct 30, 2021

In Hiding

In Hiding IN HIDING Altitude 2134 feet. Sky clear. Vine maple leaves, red and gold, scatter in the breeze. Moss-covered ground is as soft and wet as a kitchen sponge, and I know this because I am lying on that ground. Flattened to it. There is a rutted, gravel road…

Autumn

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In Hiding
In Hiding
Autumn

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Oct 25, 2021

Seasonal Gifts

Seasonal Gifts In winter I find myself thinking about how much I love winter. It is its quiet, its long nights, its holiday traditions, one after another, trees and candles and music and light. It is its storms shaking boughs and filling rivers and covering mountains in white. …

Autumn

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Seasonal Gifts
Seasonal Gifts
Autumn

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Sep 29, 2021

On Saying Goodbye to Itty

-Naseem Rakha After riding a bus for nine hours from his college, Elijah came home for a brief 26 hour visit, just enough time for Chuck and him to go out for breakfast then spend the day with our dying cat, Itty Bitty. …

Pets

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On Saying Goodbye to Itty
On Saying Goodbye to Itty
Pets

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Sep 28, 2021

What Hiroshima Says About Doctors in a Time of Crisis.

I am re-reading John Hersey’s book Hiroshima — the devastating look at life at the moments before, during, and after the city was obliterated by the world’s first atomic bomb. …

Covid 19 Crisis

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What Hiroshima Says About Doctors in a Time of Crisis.
What Hiroshima Says About Doctors in a Time of Crisis.
Covid 19 Crisis

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Aug 22, 2021

Circling the World with Shopping Carts

In an all out effort to keep the world in a buying frenzy we have the ubiquitous shopping cart. While shopping at Ikea the other day is was struck by this image — shopping carts packed together like nesting dolls, or rather, nesting dollars. I wondered, if we took all…

Consumerism

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Circling the World with Shopping Carts
Circling the World with Shopping Carts
Consumerism

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Aug 7, 2021

The mystery of Grace

Grace is the name given to a steel sculpture of a woman balanced in the Natarajansa pose on a piece of rusted and barnacle encrusted cannery slag in Bellingham Bay. No one seems to know who created her, or put her in the middle of the lagoon, about 70 feet…

Bellingham

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The mystery of Grace
The mystery of Grace
Bellingham

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Jan 21, 2021

Can America Heal

Standing in the waiting room at the car wash on inauguration day I overheard a large man swearing at the shop’s TV. “Look at that dumb SOB,” he said pointing at our newly inaugurated President. “Fucker. Nothing but a parrot.” The man was sitting in a chair next to a…

Inauguration

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Can America Heal
Can America Heal
Inauguration

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