EmpoweredOKC
Status: The truth will set you free...but first it will piss you off!
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Argus Dowdy, the best living prayer-pipe maker, is passing his skills down to me. For a few weeks now, I've traveled to his home every weekend in Skiatook, Oklahoma, about 3 hours away. He's helping...
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After two years of planning and development, Letters To Survivors is on its way to the printer/distributor! 136 pages of full color, edge-to-edge artwork, in what will become a gorgeous gift...
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River's girl cat ruined her leg and will have to lose it. He cried and cried. The amputation will cost $800, and that's Christmas shopping money. The vet thinks she jumped and got it caught, and it...
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Here's the basic story. I had come out of my building and saw a man carrying a woman by her throat, savagely pummeling her as he dragged her toward his pickup truck. I shouted at him, the gist of...
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Admit something:Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."Of course, you do not do this out loud; Otherwise,Someone would call the cops.Still, though, think about this,This great...
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I'll be away from civilization doing a prayer/fast ceremony next week.You're on your own. Don't become "Where The Wild Things Are"!
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One of the trade-offs of my new job is that rather than working directly with survivors, I work within the "system" of our state to develop victim-care programs. It's meaningful and necessary work,...
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I have taught people, every day, to affirm their own worth, to see themselves as worthy and sacred. I have taught people every day that being proud of themselves is not arrogance, which has been a...
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I'd like to use this journal to periodically process some of my feelings about losing my mom a week ago. Mom made it 10 11:50 PM on April 16; ten more minutes and it would have been my birthday. I...
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Was just notified that mom's surgery is complete. No bypass was needed, just a valve repair. This was frightening to us because she was precariously unhealthy going in to surgery: failing kidneys,...
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Rape rates in Oklahoma seem to be starting a decine:2006 1,4842007 1,5582008 1,453Over 1 in 8 adult women, or nearly 174,000 adult women in Oklahoma has been the victim of forcible rape sometime in...
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It seems that we have a really difficult time in our culture calling rape "rape." Plus we are inclined to give celebrities a free pass when it comes to sexual assault. In a recent reference to Kobe...
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From the book "What Difference Do It Make?" (the follow-up to "Same Kind of Different as Me"): Denver spoke slowly and deliberately, keeping me pinned with that eyeball, ignoring the Starbucks...
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All life is sacred,And every moment is a gift.We can come to that awareness joyfully, or carried in on a stretcher.
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So I've just returned from Washington, D.C. where I attended a three-day training at the Sofitel, around the corner from the White House, with supreme accomodations courtesy of the Fed. Directors...
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