A Time for Every Purpose Under Heaven

A time for peace (I swear it’s not too late…)

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Or so says Pete Seeger’s paraphrase of Ecclesiastes. He goes on. A time for birth. A time for death. A time for war and a time for peace. I believe many have honed their skills on stories for Medium, or maybe I should say in Medium. For me that has mostly been in Illumination Curated Newsletters.

I know I owe the inordinate amount of boosted stories to help I got from from Mehmet and Aiden, and Jim Finn. Jim was willing to let a straight, married, with kids — kind of like Ozzy and Harriett or Leave it to Beaver guy (Ha! Sowed too many wild oats for that to ever be true!)— say exactly what straight white professors (or at least this one) thought of the Gay Community. I wrote about everything from theology (my degrees are in education/Educational Psychology and Psychology) to the first Pride Day in my small Indiana community. I owe him lots for educating me about the LGBTQ+ Community and what an older retired professor can do.

But why did I really write that first story those 3 years ago? Why? I had spanked my kids when they were little, I wanted to tell somebody — anybody — so another child would not be subjected to abuse (You call it what you want. In my story it’s abuse. I call ’em like I see ‘em). Of course those were back in my personal dark ages…