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Manners & Morality
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe Edmund Burke argued that culture, which he called “manners,” is more important than politics. Manners, he wrote, “are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend…Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a…
Revisiting Hope
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Cafe In 2021 I ended a post with this quote from Zig Ziglar: “If there is hope for the future, there is power in the present.” Re-reading that blog today, written a few short weeks after our nation’s capital was under siege January 6, 2021, I was reminded of…
John Paul Lederbach
Two Cups of Tea at Hope’s Café “A few blogs ago, I shared a quote from John Paul Lederach: “Building peace is more often about creating space, developing relationships, persevering in spite of overwhelming pessimism, and being flexible enough to respond to emerging opportunities, meager as they may be.” Having never heard of him, I…
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