Problems are easy to identify, solutions are another matter. I drove by our neighborhood soup kitchen the other morning. (By the way I love the idea of having a soup kitchen for the homeless in our neighborhood. Twice a week, Charlotte’s homeless are fed, given groceries, and checked on in one of the city’s best…

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  I read this weekend that poetry is a tool to break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones of feeling, recharge desire. (Adrienne Rich). As an Electrical Engineering student we didn’t take many classes about poetry, and I am embarrassed to admit that as a child my interest in poetry was pretty much…

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This next Pew is likely to offend, although it is not my intention. I hope to create dialogue and discussion, and say what I am about to say with an open mind. I wouldn’t want to be the same person I was twenty years ago in attitudes. Time and experience has taught me a great…

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