During the riverboat trend of the 1920s, Sacramento enjoyed what might be considered a SacrmentoLand period, as dozens of Hollywood films were clamoring to use Sacramento locations to shoot Mississippi River stories; those Show Boat, Old Man River, Capn’ Andy kinds of menageries. Today, Sacramento still occasionally delights in some…
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Reflecting On Maternal Feminism
“The maternal archetype is a rhetorically powerful image that is invoked to motivate the protection and sustenance of the environment. However, the use of motherhood as a unifying principle confounds womanhood with motherhood, and fails to honor the complexity of motherhood as an ideologically and socially constructed institution.” – Lynn…
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Quantum Leap Thinking
Mapes lays out the “QLT Theorems” from the ‘groundwork’ to the ‘leap taking’ and ‘balancing’ stages, and finally to ‘leadership,’ with the use of various quizzes and mental exercises meant to stimulate the creative mind… Quantum Leap Thinking presents a lively, innovation of self-help visualization techniques, with which many Anthony…
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The Gratiae
Thomas Aquinas, wrote that Charity is a friendship with God and the angels. A supernatural conversation that does not reside in relationships with other human beings… Wilson, M. “The Gratiae Goddesses.” Owlcation. September 04, 2018. https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Gratiae-Goddesses. Have you ever noticed the way that literature, beauty, poetry and other related expressions…