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Gun Control and Gun Rights: A Public Discussion

January 29, 20130

Sedona AZ (January 29, 2013) – Hot Topics Cafe, a partnership between Philosophy in the Public Interest and the Compassion…

Hope Is Half of Having
By Tommy Acosta
Not only was that hurricane a devastation in the physical realm, but also a devastation of the soul as well. Try to imagine what it was and is like for those whose homes, properties, businesses, families, friends, hopes and dreams were swept into oblivion by the rampaging floods. No house. No food. No water. No beds. No computers. No toothbrushes. No clothes. No paperwork. No phones. No service. No electricity. No communication with the outside world. No place to bathe. No place to go to the bathroom. No toilet paper, even. No stores to buy anything. No authorities to direct them. Just mud. Devastation. Everything is gone. Panic. Disbelief. Shock as hopelessness plunges its cold blade into the hearts of those who lost all. It’s unfathomable. Can we, living in the comfort of Sedona, imagine the magnitude of that loss? How will these people survive? Where will they go? Will their lives ever be the same? Ten, even twenty years from now? Read more→