by margaret | Dec 16, 2021 | lakota, wolf storm, yellow lodge
Estchimah (looks up into Twin Chiefs eyes) The mirror has great power Twin Chiefs (smiles) Yes, it has, my child (One morning soon after, she notices the old man is breaking camp. She eats some dry meat and drinks the soup he has prepared. Then she begins to...
by margaret | Nov 11, 2021 | anishinaabe, confederation
The History of the Anishinabek Nation, begins with the historical Confederacy of Three Fires. The Ojibway, Odawa and Potowatomi Nations formed the Council of the Three Fires, a confederacy of peoples whose languages and territories were close, and who met...
by margaret | Sep 29, 2021 | ishtar, lilith
To the Land of No Return, the realm of Ereshkigal,Ishtar, the daughter of the Moon, set her mind. To the dark house, the abode of Irkalla,To the house which none leave who have entered it,To the road from which there is no way back,To the house wherein the entrants...
by margaret | Jun 16, 2021 | cave, plato, socrates
Socrates: And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! Human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood,...
by margaret | Jun 15, 2021 | equality, phaedrus, plato, socrates
phaedrus 74-76 socrates: All these examples show, then, that recollection is caused by like things and also by unlike things, do they not? simmias: Yes. socrates: And when one has a recollection of anything caused by like things, will he not also inevitably consider...
by margaret | Feb 10, 2020 | john stuart mill, marriage
Being about, if I am so happy as to obtain her consent, to enter into the marriage relation with the only woman I have ever known, with whom I would have entered into that state; & the whole character of the marriage relation as constituted by law being such as...
by margaret | Feb 10, 2020 | john stuart mill
The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over...
by margaret | Feb 9, 2020 | music, shostakovich
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by margaret | Feb 9, 2020 | jon roland
The Constitution that has protected our rights and liberties for more than 200 years is now in greater danger of being overthrown than at any time in our history. Though generations of patriotic citizens have fought and died to defend it against enemies foreign and...
by margaret | Mar 29, 2019 | black elk
Then the bay horse wheels north to where the great white giant lives and says: Behold! And yonder there are twelve white horses, all abreast Manes flowing like blizzard wind Roaring from their noses And white geese…all about them…soaring, circling. Then...
