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Mexico
Oh, MexicoIt sounds so sweet with the sun sinking lowThe moon’s so bright like to light up the nightMake everything all right James Taylor, “Mexico,” 1975, from the album Gorilla Watching the coverage of the protests in Los Angeles, one thing stands out. It is Mexico’s green, white, and red flag that has become a…
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So much for progress
For most of my life, at least since I developed a mind of my own and thought about such things, I had two unshakeable beliefs. One was that everything will be okay. And I believed that because of the second one – that things are getting better. Progress may not be dramatic or even perceivable,…
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Oh. My. God.
I had a post all written and ready to go for today. I was just polishing it and fact checking a few assertions I had made. It was a fun one for my “curiosity” category about etiquette and how the concept of what is appropriate or proper has changed over time. For example, you’re on…
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We are all sons of Verdugo!
We call her the Jewel City of the Verdugos. Because of geography and terrain, we can see the skyline of downtown LA just over the hills of Elysian Park where Dodger stadium sits. We are the backdoor to LA’s “urban wilderness” – Griffith Park. We bridge the southland’s two great valleys, the San Gabriel and…
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