Comments on: Happy Independence Day http://www.unschooled.org/2007/07/happy-independence-day/ It's been a long week... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:04:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Nicholas http://www.unschooled.org/2007/07/happy-independence-day/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Nicholas Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:57:54 +0000 http://www.unschooled.org/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-25 Sorry, I've been a bum and things have been hectic. More will come shortly.. Sorry, I’ve been a bum and things have been hectic. More will come shortly..

]]> By: amyb http://www.unschooled.org/2007/07/happy-independence-day/comment-page-1/#comment-24 amyb Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:40:51 +0000 http://www.unschooled.org/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-24 nick, what happened to the postings? nick, what happened to the postings?

]]> By: Cafegirl http://www.unschooled.org/2007/07/happy-independence-day/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Cafegirl Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:39:33 +0000 http://www.unschooled.org/07/04/happy-independence-day/#comment-23 It did my heart good to see your July 4th signs and to read the quotation from Frederick Douglass. Douglass made me think of Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" -- specifically these lines: Human beings suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted or endured. [and then this beautiful and needed stanza: ] History says, Don't hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. It did my heart good to see your July 4th signs and to read the quotation from Frederick Douglass. Douglass made me think of Seamus Heaney’s poem “The Cure at Troy” — specifically these lines:

Human beings suffer,
they torture one another,
they get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
can fully right a wrong
inflicted or endured.

[and then this beautiful and needed stanza: ]

History says, Don’t hope
on this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up,
and hope and history rhyme.

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