Archive for the Music Category
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True Love Travels on A Gravel Road!
Have you ever heard Elvis sing the song, “True Love Travels on a Gravel Road?” He does a great job. But, I’ve never heard anyone sing this classic better than Nick Lowe. If you are a country music fan, you owe it to you
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Myths and Inconvenient Truths About Children in Poverty
There are many unknown factors when it comes to poverty, especially if you come from a background of the middle and upper classes. Though we can't predict the future, we can dispel some myths, and confirm some inconvenient truths, that collective
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Merry Christmas to My Wife
Merry Christmas My Dearest Peg! Merry Christmas to the one I love Few men hold a star from above For indeed you are a star, a guiding light graced from up high The grace of your devoted love, a gift that money cannot buy It's hard to top
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Judy Collins: Send in the Clowns
This is Judy Collins singing "Send in the Clowns." I loved this song the first time I heard it many years ago, and I still love it today. It reminds me of the irony of the war on poverty. The perception that our government helps the poor is far fr
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Jimi Hendrix: “Hey Joe,” and “Let Me Stand Next to your Fire”
Jimi Hendrix's hit song, "Hey Joe," was one of my favoriet songs during adolescent years. In my memoir I tell the story of how music from great artists like Jimi Hendrix, Janice Joplin and Bob Dylan inspired me and helped me to understand th
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“Cry Baby” by Janice Joplin
Janice Joplin was just beginning to gain popularity at about the same time I was finally making progress in my efforts to escape poverty. I identified with what seemed to me to be her aching deficit of self-esteem. I never understood how a pers
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Inspirational Stories to Get Motivated
There comes a time in everyone’s life when we have to make it in our own. For victims of generational poverty, that means venturing into a world with a different culture and a different language—the middle class. To succeed in that effo
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Character Influences Everything
Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about character. In fact, some people believe that most people haven't even considered what character really means. Oscar Wilde once said, "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are
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Problem Child to Successful Adult
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