by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 18, 2010 | Light In Action, Stopping Violence
Eyanna Flonory was loved by many people. She was just 21, learning to be an adult. She had gone to Bunker Hill CC. She had a bent to study criminal justice. Her bright-eyed, son Amanihoteph Smith , was a gregarious 2 year old. Simba Martin (21) was Eyanna’s new...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Oct 7, 2010 | Light In Action
Every day I run by the Charles River in Boston. Every week I pick up my knitting. I love both the speed of running and the patience of knitting. My endorphins ramp up with running. Actually some call my carriage jogging, but jog is a sodden word. It does nothing for...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Sep 28, 2010 | Light In Action
Hello sister citizens and hell-raisers. I’m mad. For a 54 year old happy mother and neighbor, I still feel fury. I can live with chaos. But I can’t live with disgust. I am boorishly fed-up with our leaders’ incompetence. I’m angry because last...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Sep 6, 2010 | Light In Action
Why am I not elated? A pallor descends on my face. Why does my heart come to a standstill? The President pulled out the last fighting troops in Iraq, but I’m not jumping for joy. I wish I could celebrate. I admit that removing combat troops is a step in the...
by Minga Claggett-Borne | Jun 13, 2010 | Light In Action
So Quakers in 2010 are living on the edge. Like a song that plays over and over the human race is in continual flux. But with red oil hemorrhaging in the Mexican Gulf, and the US throwing money into the war machine and foreclosures and miners dying in West Virginia...
