Paul Luvera Journal

Trish Vickers is a 59 year old woman who lives in Charmouth, Britain. She had operated a gift shop there. but developed diabetes and seven years ago became blind as a result. She decided to write, however she doesn't type or use computers. Instead she uses a system of rubber bands stretched across a writing pad as a guide for the ball point pen as she writes. She began to write poetry with this system. Then she was inspired to…

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There has been considerable writing and discussion about the legendary Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame who just died. Some of it contains helpful messages for all of us. For example, Beth Knobel, who co-wrote Wallace’s book “Heat and Light” says he understood the importance of drama or what Wallace called “heat” as well as the light of objective information. She says he was always impeccably prepared and set high standards for investigative journalism. Leonard Shyles, who is a communication…

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The March 23rd issue of Commonweal Magazine was intellectually stimulating on several subjects. Most were disturbing. Here are some brief summaries of several that I thought worth reflecting on  The editoral comment was about America's wars. It pointed out that “the United States has been at war for more than a decade. Thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans, and others have been killed. Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been maimed or crippled. Trillions…

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