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  01/16/2021       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

“What I’ve been going toward is this idea that pink is the inverse of black, or kind of the flip side—it’s part of it. Black (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Personal
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What do you want to be when you grow up……?

  12/19/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

First of all, that assumes you want to grow up.But when I was a kid the teacher went around asking the kids what they wanted (Continue Reading)

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If you can imagine it ……

  07/12/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

That sounds like a life-coach named Marvin, but it is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself. “To put it bluntly, (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise, Personal

The virus is real

  03/12/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Contrary to the usual reactionary b.s., the Corona Virus is here. Three cases found in people working in our corner of Maricopa County, AZ. Therefore, (Continue Reading)

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In Memoriam

  01/25/2020       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In keeping with our life-long interest in bridging the divisions in our society that have only gotten worse, we launched a YouTube series titled Crossing (Continue Reading)

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DECLARATION

  08/17/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I no longer feel obligated to listen to or speak to anyone with their cell phone out. If they have an important message, they can (Continue Reading)

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Panda Bear

  08/15/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

We wonder at times how our grandchildren navigate their biraciality. They live in the East Valley of Maricopa County, Arizona, one of the reddest parts (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Personal

Those strange notes

  06/26/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As I type on my blog, I hear my wife singing in the kitchen. She seldom sings. But the strains of her song are clearly (Continue Reading)

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Not exactly synonyms

  05/26/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Rut and groove in their most basic referent are the same thing, but as Wikipedia says: disambiguate. OK. When I was young I was in (Continue Reading)

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Highs and lows of recent times

  05/15/2019       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This is in lieu of a Christmas letter. Off the top of my head, some highlights. I got my knees replaced and you can read (Continue Reading)

Personal, Ramble

Early influences on my views of African-Americans

  04/17/2019       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Two books I recall reading as a kid: Louis Armstrong’s autobiography Satchmo! and Richard Wright’s Black Boy. The former the librarian wouldn’t check out to (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Personal

Blew my theory

  07/26/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I figured we’d see the highest level of police-on-Black violence in Southern states. Not so. It’s in the Midwest, places like Milwaukee and Chicago. Why? (Continue Reading)

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Incredible Serendipity

  07/26/2018       Pat Barrett      5 Comments

As the blog entry Untangling Police-on-Black Violence was spooling out, my attention kept being drawn back to my other blog entry, Blew My Theory, in (Continue Reading)

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The secret is to make a pile of money

  05/08/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Let’s just point out the bad people to start with: the Arizona state legislators. I’m guessing it is mainly Republicans, the people of personal responsibility (Continue Reading)

Health and exercise, Personal

What I forgot

  05/06/2018       Pat Barrett      7 Comments

Watching Morning Joe, I had a Great Thought. I came to the blog to write it down but first had to log in. I missed (Continue Reading)

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As the new year looms…..

  12/29/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Earlier I had felt a change coming with the demise…. I mean end of 2017 or, more precisely, the end of the holidays with their (Continue Reading)

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And yet another memorial service

  07/31/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Contrary to long custom, the services for the deceased at the Pentecostal church my wife was raised in no longer feature a body. In fact, (Continue Reading)

Culture, Personal

Our YouTube Channel: Crossing the Color Line

  07/09/2017       Pat Barrett      2 Comments

Our grandson suggested we start our own YouTube channel based on the conversations he heard between us. So we put out our first episode, Introduction, (Continue Reading)

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Get Ready World

  06/27/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Last night our grandson sat down with us and mapped out both strategy and tactics for putting us on YouTube. He bought a camera and (Continue Reading)

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Full circle

  04/17/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Full circle Saturday my wife went to hear her cousin speak in a church. She hadn’t been in that church in 53 years; it was (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Personal

Seeing Loving

  02/03/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My wife and I saw Loving tonight. It was very personal for us because our state of AZ had had anti-miscegenation laws on the books (Continue Reading)

Pat's World View, Personal

Acuity

  01/20/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here’s a good example of the almost inconceivable acuity of attention to detail some people have: there are 76 uprights, wrought iron with floral designs (Continue Reading)

Basics, Personal

MLK Day

  01/16/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Pat’s version of The Speech: I may be moving like pond water, but the arc of history bends toward me getting the refrigerator cleaned. My (Continue Reading)

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