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Last year, the MIAL presented an award to the inimitable Jesmyn Ward.
This year - 2025 - Julian David Randall is a winner.

Brown University Professor and Doctor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

Thousands “Stand Up for Science” across the country Including Nobel laureates, climate researchers, and parents of kids saved by groundbreaking drugs.

Thousands “Stand Up for Science” across the country www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

To win America, Democrats must win the story The Trump-Musk blitzkrieg war on government is not about waste; it's about oligarchy and autocracy.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Maryland State Senior Olympics
Gold Medal - Archery ( ages 70-74 )

National Senior Olympics 2025
Des Moines Iowa - July

Every bit we DON'T do to help oppressors, helps.

Whole bunch-a me's out here.
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It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto.
~~ V. Woolf