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Street
In American cities, a long time ago, street life simply was city life.
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Mother
If the father stands guard over hearth and home, it’s so that the mother and her children can be at the heart of it all, in security and peace.
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Crown
In this world of ours, a good king must feel the thorns more sharply than he sees the gold.
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May
I wish I could say, of the woods behind my house, “Who knows? Boys and girls may be there, gathering may-flowers!” Maybe I will live to see again some…
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April 2023
Spring
You might guess that the name of the season comes from the notion that everything is springing up: grass, flowers, little lambs newborn, and all the…
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Virtue
If your muscles are strong and your limbs supple, you can do a lot of things with ease that others can do only with difficulty or danger, and there will…
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Dawn
Sometimes the most interesting words are those that don’t have linguistic cousins everywhere, and that’s the case with dawn, our Word of the Week. It…
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Palm
If your name is Palmer, you had an ancestor who traveled as a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and brought back palm branches, to commemorate Christ’s…
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March 2023
Passion
Word of the Week | In the ancient world, the passions were held in some suspicion, not that people didn’t indulge their passions, but still, the really…
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Sight
Word of the Week | Sight is the least material of the senses. The scientists say that photons have no mass: and if that doesn’t approach the purely…
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Hope
For almost 200 years, some people in the west have tried to replace hope with optimism, not for persons but for the whole human race. The thing about…
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Humor
In ancient medicine, if you were in your humor, you were acting according to your predominant bodily fluid, and that was usually all right by you. But…
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