TransformationsThe following articles are the previous columns written by bobby jennings editor of InnerSelf. The common message is loosely the transformations always occurring within ourselves and within our society. Scroll down for an introduction to our featured articles, or click directly to one of the articles from the list on the right. |
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War on Terrorism:
Viet Nam Redux? by bobby jennings. While watching the HBO produced "Path To War", a docudrama about how the US and President Lyndon Johnson were pulled into the Viet Nam War, I could not help but make comparisons to the current war on terrorism. As in Viet Nam, America again is slowly and methodically being pulled into war... |
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Activism
Begins at Home by Marie T. Russell and bobby jennings. "The way I'm an activist...is try to be a good person, do what I believe in,  in
every way. Activism can start very small -- helping our neighbor, being less
materialistic, not being mass consumers. These things are active." -- Patti Smith. |
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Who Let The Dogs Out? by bobby jennings.  Since 9-11, I've been keeping up
with things through various news sources. True, we have
been getting various disturbing reports from friends and
subscribers but frankly hearing about how things are and
experiencing them first hand are two different things. |
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Casting Stones Or Exporting
Eugenics? |
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How
To Eat A Mango "If the same verse keeps repeating we must be stuck in a groove. Or, if we are stuck in a groove we will keep hearing the same verse."... |
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What's Really Going On "The times they are a changing", so wrote Bob Dylan in the early 60's. The title had its meaning to the young people of the period and in the current social evolution of man, but really it has always had a universal meaning and not a very complicated philosophy..... |
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Human Is As
Human Does Special? We want to be special? Then we need to act special. Why? Because....... As my friend Forest Gump would say. "Special is as Special does".... |
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Tough
Decisions
Made Simple At first glance, nothing is as simple as it seems. After closely scrutinizing it, neither is it as complex. The trick, is merely how to look at it... |
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Politics
As Usual? The 2000 Republican Presidential primary was like a return of a nightmare for me. My personal conflict with the "Religious Right" came at the height of their power in 1985 when I finally decided to move my membership to the largest Baptist Church in Orlando. |
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Life
Is A Series Of Steps Ever heard the saying "3 steps forward and two steps back"? Of course you have! Well there's more than that. All universal activity, including human endeavor, occurs in excess and must be corrected. |
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