The Closet Bluebird
April 25, 2018[…] because each day Miss Dusenberry would tie me up with a rope and lock me in a black closet. While I never complained, the curriculum did seem monotonous. Each day when my mother asked […]
[…] because each day Miss Dusenberry would tie me up with a rope and lock me in a black closet. While I never complained, the curriculum did seem monotonous. Each day when my mother asked […]
Religions is for women. Says Madeleine, Portuguese-Catholic, chunky in her black pleated skirts, cackling always, nudging God. Women believe it. Women practice it. When pews are filled they are filled with women. Men eh […]
Let me bring home your dark eyes and the secret of their holiness, your quick fingers and your fine pride in the black tent they weave.
[…] of the Church who are technically qualified and who feel so inclined are encouraged to provide what community service they can to assist with this influenza immunization campaign. Even stronger was a subsequent statement […]
[…] and cruel expression on their faces. While licentiousness and dissipation amongst every race either civilized or savage, black, brown or white, have always weakened that people, diminished their size and strength, aggravated their peculiarities […]
[…] member is constantly reminded of the urgency of the food storage program, the continual threat of personal, community, or national disaster and the imminence of the millennial advent. In his personal life he must […]
Pictures in books suggest That I first stood grey and white On short black kodak grass.
[…] from the earlier edition, quotations in this paper are from the 9th ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Steam Printing Establishment, 1874). Elders’ Journal of the Church of Latter Day Saints 1 (July 1838): […]
[…] Center in Kona, Hawaii, for instance, is one building that clearly bespeaks its island origin. Walls of black native lava rock, rather than familiar brick, and white stucco form a startling contrast with the […]
[…] the prophet. The practice of “applying the scriptures to ourselves” is quite legitimate and useful in a community of faith. Mormons such as Nyman are following a Judeo-Christian exegetical tradition evident among the Nephites, […]