Somethin’ From Nothin’

This week’s unrest across the country reminds me of my own biases instilled in me as a child in the 1950s and how a young black boy in the 1980s helped me overcome this prejudicial upbringing.  I wrote this article over 20 years ago, and it was published in AIM Magazine’s winter, 1999 issue.   …

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Magnificent Animals

“I wouldn’t want to take part in the death of such magnificent creatures!” we recently overheard someone say in regard to killing bison for meat. But what constitutes a “magnificent creature”?  Bison?  Bear?  Bluebirds?  Butterflies? Perception “It’s all just perception,” noted a biologist friend of ours. “It’s what’s been glamorized and victimized. We kill anything …

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