Margaret M. Kirk

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Isabella Bomfree

February 1, 2026

Ain’t I a Woman?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

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Eudora Welty

January 25, 2026

Nine Simple Words

Before accepting the invitation, she made one demand. “The audience must be integrated, or I won’t come.” She wasn’t marching in the street, shouting, carrying a bullhorn and making demands. This quiet, refined Southern lady simply uttered nine words. Millsaps College never had an integrated audience for anything. Eudora did not back down. 

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Pema Chödrön

January 18, 2026

Cultivating Nonaggression

“…will my response reduce harm - or multiply it? Peace does not begin when the world stops being violent. It begins when we refuse to add more violence from within.”

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January 11, 2026

The Humanist Photo Journalist

Thought her career, Eve’s goal was always to “show you something you would not have otherwise seen.”

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January 4, 2026

Living Gratitude

She lived gratitude, although she had every reason to muddle in self pity. Blind since she was six weeks old, she lived her life in technicolor and left a brilliant legacy.

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Bessica Faith Medlar

December 28, 2025

Wings to Fly

Their design space was their living room, and the grand piano was their workbench. Their workshop was their backyard, where assembly was completed. When it was ready for final construction, they had to remove the front of the house to get it out.

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Astrid Lindgren

December 21, 2025

Facing Things

She often said, “Children should be raised “not to be psychopaths like Hitler or authoritarians, dictators, and so on.”

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A New Beginning

December 14, 2025

Exciting News… and a Thought

Is your heart tired from wandering? Love, joy and kindness are critical for our well-being; they enable the light within to shine.

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Cristiane Amanpour

December 7, 2025

Purpose and Truth

Cristiane Amanpour is a woman whom I admire greatly for her passion, truth telling, and sense of purpose, a woman who has lived her life fearlessly and through many adversities, continues to do so.

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Vivian Bales

November 30, 2025

The Spirit of Adventure

It took Vivian 78 days to cover about 5,000 miles solo from Albany, Georgia, to the Harley Davidson factory in Milwaukee.

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