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seed

By: littlepeace April 1, 2018
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unless a seed will fall to the ground and die no tomb can be a womb

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About Amelia


I'm an editrix, a writer, a poet, a photographer, and a wielder of butter. I love Jesus because He loved me first.

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Hurray for spontaneous friends like @smithhcs and odd little British films and sightings of great horned owls whilst escaping from the attentions of a talkative middle-aged male fan of obscure cinema. (He asked me “Have you seen ‘Juliet Naked’? which was playing in the same theatre as our film. I had an impish urge to respond “No, have you?” meaning not at all the same thing. But I didn’t. I’ll bet Katherine Hepburn would’ve, though.)
Today we got to meet a great-great granddaughter of Florella Adair, pioneer, abolitionist, and half-sister of John Brown. Florella was among the second class of women to graduate from Oberlin College. When her husband Samuel proposed he offered her poverty, persecution and death — he was also an ardent abolitionist and wanted to be a missionary. She accepted him. They moved out to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act to help establish the territory as a free state. She was quite a woman. If you want to know what Kansas is like you need to know about Bleeding Kansas and the Border Wars. Not much of the effects are immediately obvious today, maybe, though we still have friendly animosity toward Missourians. But brave and terrible things were done in the name of freedom for all men and women. John Brown was a terrorist, on one hand. But on the other he fully believed in the complete humanity and equality of African-Americans, and he willingly died for that belief. History is a complicated thing and humans are complex beings. It’s important to remember where you came from.

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