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Ann Medlock is a writer who founded the Giraffe Heroes Project to foster citizen courage by honoring people who stick their necks out for the common good. The Project encourages today's heroes and trains tomorrow's.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Obama Surfs! (2 comments)
he author of this piece is a neighbor and dear friend. It's an interesting observation about our new President--and I love this photo. Obama looks so congruent, so at ease, with Water (a state of being very much at the heart of my book, The Mermaid's Tale
Saturday, January 5, 2008 On the Assassination of a Woman (2 comments)
May the deaths and maimings of our American daughters shock us into remembering how precious all our children's lives are, never to be spent recklessly or venally. Our children are not cannon fodder. Not a single one of them, male or female.
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 The Giraffe Heroes Project - EnCouraging Today's Heroes, Training Tomorrow's
A Giraffe gift idea, a reminder & a hint. The online Celebration of Courageous Compassion is delighting visitors with its humor and creativity. Go to www.giraffe.org/non-event and click through the items on the "program." We promise you'll enjoy the music, the talks, the stories... If you don't think you have time for the whole party, we have a 3-minute option for you- click here and then on the sound player for Ann Medlock.
Monday, October 29, 2007 Where are the Voices of -and for - the Poor?
We should be talking about [this].But no.We're talking about the dangers of two-groom weddings,about building walls to stop the inflow of brown people,about who's going to win American Idol.It's sleight-of-hand. It's saying to our people,"Look at this stuff that doesn't matter so you won't see that something that matters deeply to you, to the nation, to the world, is being taken from you." It works for the already powerful...
Monday, October 15, 2007 Necks Out, Chins Up (3 comments)
Instilling fear in the populace is a fine tool for control.The unspoken subtext:"Let us do whatever we want to the Constitution,let us start wars wherever it suits us,let us have your kids to send into the meat grinder-because we're protecting you from Big Bad Wolves."Here's one citizen who won't play.I'm not scared and you shouldn't be either.We can stick our necks out and our chins up. We're tough,strong,& we're not afraid.
