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2012 Veterans Day Poster

Veterans Never Stop Serving

November 11, 2012

Even after our veterans take off the uniform, they never stop serving. Many apply the skills and experience they developed on the battlefield to a life of service here at home. They take on roles in their communities as doctors and police officers, engineers and entrepreneurs, mothers and fathers.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Democracy, Holidays, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Veteran's Day
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Cover of Plato's "Republic"

Politics After the Apocalypse

November 11, 2012

If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Politics
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Remebering Labor, Entering Rest

September 7, 2009

To truly make this a holiday, to truly rest in praise of the goodness, truth, & beauty of Labor Day, requires contemplation.

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Shelved with: Community & Time|| History|| Sociology
Tagged With: Canada, Economics, History, Holidays, Mind & Society, Science & Technology, Slavery, Visual Arts, Work
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Watching the Cubs from Bahgdad

May 25, 2009

Here is what Memorial Day means to me today: it means remembering the connections we have to those who are elsewhere, remembering that the small things we enjoy here at home exist in a larger system of past and present service, sacrifice and justice.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Connected Worlds|| Hearts & Minds|| History|| Local Life|| Mind & Society
Tagged With: Afghanistan, Army, Baghdad, Chicago Cubs, Germany, Holidays, Iraq, Martin Luther King Jr., Memorial Day, Pittsburgh Pirates, Sixties, Soldiers, Twitter, Vietnam, War & Peace
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Literacy|| The History & Future of Books|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Tagged With: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barack Obama, Camelot, Change, Democracy, John McCain, King Arthur, Politics, Sacrifice
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