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Monthly Archives: January 2010
A Bottle Replenished
Over the sound of sirens and car horns the plastic machine on my table rang out, begging to be consoled. The night before had been a long one and I had tied one on so tight that my brain begged me to shut up that phone. I considered throwing a bottle at it, but some inner voice told me I had better pick it up.
Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain
“I am becoming more firmly fixed in my conviction concerning this war that religion will be more intimately interwoven in its history than any which had ever preceded it,” she wrote on October 13, 1862. “The men who have honored God are the men he has chosen to honor on almost every field.”
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Tagged christianity, Civil War, convictions, diary, Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, religion, women
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Valentines Day – A History
Regardless of the exact history behind what is known today as Valentine’s Day, it would be wise not to engage in intellectual debate over its origins of February 14th. Instead, those who have a special love interest in their life would be well advised to leave history to scholars and arrive on time and with a token of love and gratitude.
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Tagged catholic saints, goddess juno, History, saint valentine, valentines day
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