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“We’ll meet again. Don’t know where. Don’t know when….” Namaste By Mickie Lynn on February 4, 2021 at 8:15 AM
As most readers already know, the
Times Union has decided to end the presence of non staff-produced blogs on this website. This is our last message to you on the TU platform and we depart with love and gratitude. Namaste.
Women Against War began blogging here in August of 2009. It’s been good to share our many perspectives and our messages about non-violent solutions to conflict. Especially our love and connections to the world’s children, families, and to our Planet on these pages. As bloggers, we’ve learned so much from each other. And even more through the process of researching, writing and illustrating each article and working with others to change the cruel models and self-serving narratives of
SALTILLO • Opposition to a proposed annex that would add 2.2 square miles to the city’s limits has forced Saltillo officials to rework the proposal before it gets to court.
Adieu, old friend.
When the
Times Union announced last week it would kill its entire selection of community blogs, including mine, the move felt like root canal. It wasn’t just the pain of watching my writing gig end after eight years or my discomfort with the TU’s shutdown of a bastion of unfettered speech, a rare diversity of voices in a shrinking free press.
It’s that I’m getting an actual root canal when the blogs shut down on Friday.
Naturally, the timing is purely coincidental. I’d made my Feb. 5 appointment to kill my bottom second-from-the-left molar well before I learned the paper was icing its sprawling “citizen” blog section that day. Still, I can’t ignore the startling similarities between the dental and editorial moves. Both are unpleasant procedures of last resort to fix long-festering issues, whose consequences are sure to reverberate well beyond the kill dates.
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Our nation is more divided, we’re often told these days, than at any time since the Civil War. We don’t trust each other. People are disappointed in every institution government, church, schools, business, the media. We’re really angry.
At a certain point, you have to ask: Just what is so awful in America that is making folks so damn mad? And can’t we just get over it? Pop therapists tell us to let go of our anger and we’ll feel better so that should work for the country, right?
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