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Red Road to DC: Lummi Nation to Transport Climate Change Totem Poll from Washington State to Washington, D.C.

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Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As record-breaking heat waves and floods ravage the continent, members of the Lummi Nation are transporting a 25-foot, hand-carved and painted totem pole from Washington State to Washington D.C., visiting many sacred and historic places along the way under threat from climate change, dams and resource extraction. They are…

Morning Calm in the Sunrise Orange Glow Over the Smoky Mountains

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Democrats Projected to Win Both U.S. Senate Campaigns in Georgia – The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — My eyes eased open just before sunrise this morning to that pre-sunrise orange glow coming up over the smoky mountains in view from the upstairs window facing east toward the peaks. You know,…

Secret Vistas: A Spiritual Experience in Shenandoah

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By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH, Va. — It’s a bit early for a year in review story, but for me, it’s been one hell of a year. A humbling year. I’ve long known that we are all just like tiny grains of sand in the long run of history, here on this special beach of…

Order of the Day: November 3, 2020

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CAMP DAVID, Md. — Editor’s Note – A few inspirational thoughts on Election Day while we hold our breaths and wait for the results to start coming in Tuesday night. Today I will fly my American flag proudly in my campsite in the same mountain woods as Camp David, because I will not concede the…

Shenandoah One More Time in the Summer of Our Discontent

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Secret Vistas –  By Glynn Wilson –  LOFT MOUNTAIN, SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. (Sunday, July 12, 2020) — In this summer of our discontent, with the coronavirus still spreading into every corner of the world and the economy teetering on the brink of collapse, it is hard to totally escape the anxiety and stress of…

Trump is the Bull in the China Shop, his Dreams Full of Alligators

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The Big Picture –  By Glynn Wilson –  The closest Donald Trump has ever come to a swamp or a live alligator is no doubt on one of his golf courses, where he probably ignored laws to protect wetlands and endangered species. If Batman ‘s dreams were filled with bats, Trump’s dreams must be full…

An Open Letter to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, Republican of Alabama

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Editor’s Note: This is an open letter to U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, the Republican from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, published here as an editorial opinion column. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dear Senator Shelby: You and I go way back, when I covered your earliest political campaigns for Alabama newspapers and the wire service UPI. You’ve been around awhile…

Escaping the Heat Dome and Heading for Walden Pond

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“The Revolution had come and passed, And Young America, gathered about, Received his tales with many a doubt…” – George P. Webster, Legend of Rip Van Winkle Sunday Reader –  By Glynn Wilson – THURMONT, Md. — The heat pressed down over Washington and came with a suffocating invisible cloud of ozone, making it hard…

Standing Up to Trump’s Tyranny on Independence Day

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“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us,…

Lessons for Progressive Democrats on Theodore Roosevelt Island

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Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Lurking on a wooded little island in the Potomac River just across the water from Georgetown, there lie important lessons for progressive Democrats from the most progressive president in American history. In continuing our exploration of the U.S. capital region, not just the partisan politics,…

Dancing Around the Mulberry Tree

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Friend, friend Here you come again Empty handed like A pauper in the cold You found, my friend That lonely road again Where the world has left Your wounded soul I have said I will be with you till the end But sometimes the weight Is more than I can hold Forgiveness comes But not…