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  H/T Gerard (The Road Home)                                                       Photograph by by Carles –Vilarrasa  From Barbara’s website: Heaven has welcomed a beautiful saint and patriot today - our friend, mother of 12, author and blogger, Barbara Curtis. She was a testimony to God's grace and transforming power. She had a wise, compassionate heart, and had such an amazing impact on so many people she didn't even know. I have no doubt that she is now hearing the words that all of us long to one day hear: "Well done, my good and faithful servant." Rest in peace, Barbara. You will be greatly missed,...

In 1967, I was the radical Alinsky wrote the rules for. On the political cutting edge, I’d been arguing with fellow students and coworkers for years about Vietnam, and my growing disgust with my country led me down many winding roads of anti-American thought. I was counterculture before there was a name for it, skipping my prom and graduation as “bourgeois,” going barefoot, braless, and unshaven, and collecting tattoos at the only place in town those days — a crummy hole-in-the-wall next to downtown D.C.’s Greyhound station. Everything about me was about making a statement. And while it was pretty...