HeyJaredTruths Our Bodies Remember
Wayne Turner is a veteran and Guilford College grad raised in the Jim Crow South. He writes Our Bodies Remember to explore America’s truths, with help from his satirical alter ego, Wry Banter, at My Wit’s End.
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Paying it Forward with Random Acts of Kindness (opens the original)
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Consensual Political Intercourse (opens the original)
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IntroductionHow often and how recently have you been corrected for calling our country a democracy, only to be told it is a republic? What truth lies in either assertion? Are we one, the other, or both? This essay examines the extent to which each assertion about our form of government is correct and delves into the roots of each. It may also help us better understand and respond to less-than-flattering labels attached to them or to their namesake political parties.We know our founding fathers d
Truths Our Bodies Remember (opens the original)
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How do you physically react to video replays of 9/11? Does a visceral discomfort assert itself and inform your mind of something it no longer recalls as clearly as it once did? Does an emotional response follow? If so, you have discovered the essence of what this publication is about—truths our bodies remember.We can choose to deny, obfuscate, forget, change the narrative, or even lie, but we cannot train our bodies not to remember. Imagine how the searing emotional pain inflicted on family memb
Next Up: Thomas Jefferson (opens the original)
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John Adams (opens the original)
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