Author: Andy Moore
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16 February 2023
While listening to the radio the other day I heard a message promoting adoption. At one point , the voice coming through the speaker said something to the affect of “call this number to learn about kids available for adoption.” And something about the word available made me cringe. Like, are they selling cars here?…
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Bravery
Bravery: Living in a manner that resonates with your truest self and respecting that in others. Reflecting often to unlearn life lessons founded in hatred and dishonesty. Avoiding extremism in all forms and recognizing when the power hungry would use their perverted interpretations of specific lifestyles and social movements to incite violence against an oppressed…
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7 October 2022
While running this afternoon, I saw a man, probably in his early seventies, walking in his yard. He had some obvious mobility limitations and, truth be told, had quite a large belly. He was carrying a plant in a hanging basket to the most sunlit part of his yard, and I thought, how beautiful. If…
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Why I care about the 50 Venezuelans
As you may have heard, the Florida governor orchestrated and paid for a plan to have asylum seekers in Texas flown to Martha’s Vineyard as a political stunt to own the libs and deliver the “immigration problem” to the doorsteps of the out-of-touch wealthy liberal elite. There have been dozens of articles written about this,…
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12 September 2022
Most people are more concerned with their activities than they are with their actions. But any individual activity we partake in is meaningless; whereas the actions we take can change everything.
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A Pride Post of Sorts by Some Straight Dude
This is a bit of a difficult post to write. It’s not difficult to say publicly that I support rights for gay people or that trans folks should be able to serve in the military. I’m quite comfortable discussing the concept of gender as a social construct and pondering how traditional gender norms have slowed…
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Food and Reflections from a Lonely NYE Dinner (2020)
When I struggle to find a way into a topic, I can always count on a good meal to open the door for me. I mean, how can one begin to reflect on all that was 2020 and not struggle to find a succinct way to start even a single thought? Well, for me, the…
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Racism and Me: A Personal Excavation
*****Important note for the reader***** This post has foul language containing racist and homophobic slurs. They are only used for the sake of accurate and honest storytelling as they relate to my personal history. This post could be a step to position me as an ally to the black community. I will do my best,…
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Philadelphia, AIDS, and COVID-19
I watched the movie Philadelphia for the first time last night. Wow. I could watch that opening scene on a loop. Touring the city while Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Philadelphia hums in the background, body buzzing in the dissonance created by the beauty and hope of one of our nation’s great cities brushing against all…
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I’m Pissed Off And It’s OK
It looks like a few months ago I was going to write a post about anger. Not just about feeling angry, but about its stigma and how this stigma leads to an unhealthy denial of what I think is an extremely important and powerful emotion. But as you can tell from the excerpt below, it…
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