Tag: charity
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
It’s so easy to misjudge people isn’t it? I’m not sure what criteria can withstand the vagaries and vicissitudes of Time, though; Life is like that: a good novel changing from one page to the next makes for an interesting and compelling read. There was an elderly lady I often saw in the mall’s Food…
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Much Rain Wears the Marble
I had just missed the bus, I know that now –but so had she, the little woman sitting by herself in the tiny shelter. It was an almost-dark evening in April, and I had walked for a few blocks along a darkened, tree-lined street because there was no shelter at the previous bus stop. It…
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Is What’s Past Really Prologue?
War has so many faces and wears so many different clothes that you might be forgiven for misunderstanding its refugees. Confusing cause and effect in their behaviour, their appearance, and perhaps, most obviously, in their adaptations to the stress of upheaval and migration. There is no universal pattern that obtains, and few things to offer…